Three Pakistan players -- Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif -- have been suspended and charged by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU), over the alleged bowling of deliberate no-balls at Lord's cricket ground in north London.

"It is no coincidence that Pakistan are repeatedly implicated in these scandals because they never deal with them properly," Boycott wrote in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "People might get suspended or banished from the team, but within a few months the regime changes, and they are back again, as if nothing happened.