'ICC violated principle of innocent until proven guilty'
London | Saturday, Sep 4 2010 IST
 

Angered over ICC's decision to drop Mohammmad Aamer from the list of its' annual awards nominees, Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan criticised the game's governing body and said it has violated the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty'.

''I have learnt that ICC has taken cricketer Mohammad Aamir's name off from the list of ''Players of the Year.'' What happened to the general principle of law ''innocent until proven guilty'','' Hasan said in a statement last night.

''After the shocking, arbitrary and high-handed suspension of the three Pakistani cricketers through the ICC''s uncalled for action, nothing is coming to me as a surprise. Rather, my apprehensions that there is a rat in the whole affair are being strengthened.

''It is emerging as a fishy situation where pieces have now started falling in place to convince me that there is more than meet the eyes,'' he said. The ICC yesterday dropped pacers Mohammad Asif and Aamer, currently engulfed in the spot-fixing scandal, from its annual awards list. Aamer was nominated for 'Emerging Player of the Year' award.

The Pakistani envoy further described the ICC's hasty action against the tainted trio over the 'spot-fixing' row as ''self-serving, malafide and sinister''.

''As I said in my Thursday's statement that after the request by the three players to PCB, through me, for their voluntary withdrawal from playing in the current tour until their names have been cleared and their honour vindicated, ICC''s action was not only in a bad taste but was also self-serving, malafide and intriguingly sinister,'' Hasan said in the statement. ''I would rather add that ICC's hasty decision was aimed at covering up its own acts of omission and commission.

''Its notice to the players appears to have been aimed at influencing the legal process and to prejudice the ongoing police investigation,'' he added.

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