Pakistan’s disgraced former captain Salman Butt is being considered for selection ahead of the three-match Test series in the West Indies in April, PTI reported.
The Pakistan Cricket Board is said to have given a clearance to tainted player to be considered by the national selection committee.
Butt, 32, was the mastermind of the spot-fixing scandal that took place during Pakistan’s tour to England in 2010. Butt along with teammates, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir, was banned for five-years and served jail time.
Their bans expired in September 2015 and while Butt has performed well in domestic cricket since then, Aamir made his way back into the national team last January.
The PCB has remained reluctant to give formal clearance for Butt to play for Pakistan again, insisting that it was up to the national selectors to decide his case.
“Now the PCB has given its clearance and chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq has had a discussion with the national team’s head coach Mickey Arthur about probable selections for the Test series in the West Indies and Butt’s name has been discussed seriously,” a well-informed source was quoted as saying.
He said Butt was likely to be called up for the national training camp prior to the announcement of the squad.