Pakistan's leading English daily Dawn claimed on Tuesday that Younis - in his statement to the International Cricket Council's Code of Commission - said he was “surprised” with the no-ball of Mohammad Aamir and told the fast bowler during the break in Punjabi language 'What the hell was that.' Afridi told the commission when he met the suspended trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Aamir in the hotel room, 'I thought they looked guilty.' The final hearing of the three players against the suspension will be heard by an anti-corruption tribunal at Doha, Qatar next month.
The ICC suspended the trio in Sept. after a British tabloid alleged fast bowlers Aamir and Asif bowled predetermined no-balls during the Lord's test and had links with a businessman Mazhar Majeed.
Younis told the commission that before Aamir could have responded to his question regarding the no-ball, “Butt interrupted from across the dressing room, saying: 'I told him to do it because the batsman was coming on the front foot. I told him to come forward and bowl him a bouncer.' Afridi said the three players told him “they had done nothing wrong,” to which he replied: “If you have done nothing wrong, there is no need to feel guilty.' Afridi also told the commission that Majeed had been staying in the team hotel during several series in the past and was also his promotional agent about seven or eight years back. Afridi, however, parted ways after Majeed misguided him about a promotional deal.
Khawaja Najam Javed, the Pakistan team's former security manager, told the commission that foreign currency was found in the hotel rooms of Butt and Amir in a search operation carried out by Scotland Yard.
Javed said he kept a note of the amount recovered from Butt's room which had foreign currencies of United Arab Emirates dirhams, pounds sterling, US dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars and South African rands.
“Police officers asked Butt why he had so much cash in his room and Mr. Butt stated, 'It's for my two sisters, they are getting married, it's for their dowry.' “From Mohammad Aamir's room, a mobile phone ...., 5,000 pounds sterling in cash, a few hundred US dollars and a white envelope with 2,500 pounds was recovered.” Javed also claimed that he had been watching Majeed “mingling with the Pakistan players since his first tour as official, which was in the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies.”
