London: Phone call proves in the Crown Prosecution Court that former captain Pakistan Cricket Team Salman Butt agreed to play a maiden over in Oval test.
Prosecutor presented a phone record before the court here on Thursday, in which Salman Butt ensured to his agent Mazhar Majeed that he will play a maiden over in Oval Test.
Majeed assured the journalist, Mazher Mahmood, of the News of the World, that Butt would score no runs in his first full over at the Oval the next day, August 21 last year.
When the journalist pointed out that a maiden over could happen ordinarily, the agent rang the cricketer on speaker phone to prove he was involved in the fixing scam, the court heard.
Their alleged conversation, which was recorded by the reporter, was read to the jury.
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