though butt had deflected accusations of match fixing earlier in february 2010 during pakistan's tour of australia, the 2010 tour of england was publicly marred by controversial match fixing allegations involving a number of pakistan players and their actions during the one day internationals against england and the test series against the host nation and against australia. scotland yard confirmed on 17 september that it had questioned pakistan players salman butt, mohammad asif, mohammad amir and wahab riaz over allegations of accepting bribes, and that the police had passed evidence to the crown prosecution service. several pakistani players were suspended. initially, ijaz butt had supported the prosecution of amir, stating that "his board will not make any appeals for leniency", however on 19 september he attacked the england cricket team during a press conference, accusing them of a conspiracy to "defraud pakistan cricket" by accepting their own bribes. he stated that: