Asif withdraws appeal

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Mohammad Asif, one of the three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of an International Cricket Council spot-fixing investigation, has withdrawn an appeal against his provisional suspension.

Seam bowler Asif was provisionally suspended by the game's governing body alongside Test captain Salman Butt and new ball partner Mohammad Amir after the ICC initiated an investigation into newspaper allegations that the trio had acted in association with illegal bookmakers during their summer tour of England.

All three took up the option of appealing their bans and their cases were due to be heard in Doha on October 30-31.

Butt and Amir have not followed Asif's lead and their hearings will now continue as planned.

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