Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has said thousands of pounds of cash discovered in police searches of his hotel room during spot-fixing inquiries was all part of his legitimate tour allowances.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 124px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="124" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/dec/Salman-Butt.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Salman Butt</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Butt and pacemen Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Aamer were all provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) following allegations resulting from a 'sting' operation conducted by Britain's News of the World newspaper that they'd all conspired in the bowling of deliberate no-balls. There were subsequent newspaper accusations that police had discovered 15,000 pounds in marked notes in Butt's hotel room. <br /><br />However Butt, in an excerpt of an interview at his Lahore home with Sky Sports, due to be broadcast in full today, said: "Well I think everybody knows the PCB pays us daily allowances on tours and it was a long tour.<br /><br />"About 11,000 pounds of that money was from our daily allowances and being the captain I had an extra entertainment allowance which amounts to about 4,500 pounds from the tour, which I had with me." <br /><br />Butt's case, and that of Asif and Aamer, will be heard by a three-man panel chaired by English lawyer Michael Beloff, who heads the ICC's code of conduct commission, at a hearing in Doha, Qatar, next month.

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has said thousands of pounds of cash discovered in police searches of his hotel room during spot-fixing inquiries was all part of his legitimate tour allowances.

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