Butt has become buttery

Cash used in place of fixing scandal at the test last week Lord hears is in effect in Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, Scotland Yard officers would issue Butt on Friday on how to mark the notes were discovered from his hotel room and in his office at Lord's Cricket Ground.

The money is supposed to have been part of £ 150,000 provided by an undercover News of the World reporter to the alleged fixer Mazhar Majeed, told the newspaper.

The cash, given to Majeed for fixing three no-balls of the Lord's Test between Pakistan and England, is understood to have been secretly marked so that it could be later identified by police.

According to the report, the recovered money was undergoing forensic tests to confirm police suspicions that it came from the News of the World sting.

"Early indications suggest the money found in possession of Butt originated from the sting. There are good reasons to believe this was the case," the newspaper quoted sources as saying.

The revelation came after the International Cricket Council had charged and provisionally suspended the tainted Pakistani trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer, from all forms of the game pending a decision on the charges.