A senior official of the PCB said that the central contracts of the three players stood suspended from November 1 and until the International Cricket Council (ICC) takes a final call on their provisional suspensions and also on the spot fixing allegations against them, they can't get any benefits from the board.
"Only those players are given contracts who can play for Pakistan. Since these three can't represent Pakistan until the final decision on their suspensions their contracts are suspended," Director of International Cricket Operations, Zakir Khan said.
Tafazzul Rizvi, the legal advisor of the board, said that the contracts were suspended in accordance with the ICC anti-corruption code of conduct laws.
The three players were provisionally suspended by the ICC on September 2 during the tour to England.
Rizvi said that the Board Chairman had last month given instructions to stop all payments to the suspended trio which included monthly retainers of their contracts as well.
He said, "The board at present is not providing any sort of help or support to the players and they now have to contest the suspensions and allegations against them by themselves,"
Meanwhile Salman Butt and Amir on returning to Lahore from Dubai said they were disappointed by the rejection of their appeals and felt that ICC was trying to corner Pakistan cricket.
"They have no evidence and it appears they are just trying to corner Pakistan. We are being punished for being Pakistanis," Salman Butt said.
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