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Taunton: Three Pakistan cricketers implicated in match-fixing allegations are traveling to London on Wednesday for an internal inquiry with Pakistani officials.
Test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer left the team hotel in Taunton at 1012 GMT (13:12 local time), not long after their teammates had departed for a training session ahead of a warm-up match against Somerset on Thursday.
Four Pakistan security members kept the media from approaching the three players in the hotel lobby before they left in a local taxi.
Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed said PCB chairman Ijaz Butt had ordered Thursday's inquiry at the Pakistan High Commission in Knightsbridge in London. The commissioner will attend the meeting.
The players are scheduled to return to the squad on Saturday, Saeed said.
British newspaper the News of the World alleged Sunday that Aamer and Asif were paid to deliberately bowl no-balls in the opening day of the fourth Test against England at Lord's last week. Butt and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal were also implicated in the story.
Asif, Aamer and Butt had their mobile phones confiscated by police, who also searched hotel rooms and questioned players on Saturday as part of an investigation also involving the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.
Middleman Mazhar Majeed, who was captured on film saying when the no-balls would be bowled in the newspaper sting, was arrested by Scotland Yard police on Saturday and released on bail the following day.
Pakistan and England will play Twenty20 matches on Sunday and Tuesday before a five-match one-day international series.
"It's a challenge and we will try to make sure they are focused on the game," Pakistan coach Waqar Younis said Tuesday of motivating his players to face Somerset.
