LIE DETECTOR TESTS A MOCKERY: BUTT

Pakistan's banned former captain Salman Butt has described as a 'mockery' the proposal by former Australia captain Steve Waugh to use lie detector tests in international cricket to root out corruption from the sport.

"It's a non-serious proposal. In fact it's a mockery," Butt told The Express Tribune newspaper.
"If a machine is going to detect corruption, then all corruption-related issues would've been resolved. What's the use of investigative agencies then, he added.
Butt, who is facing a criminal case in a London court following a minimum five-year ban by the ICC in the spot-fixing scandal, said he doubted the accuracy of lie detectors and stressed that the mere idea was "against the concept of right and wrong".
"It's about the lives of the cricketers. Machines cannot announce verdicts on a player's career. It seems Waugh is working as an advertising agent for some lie-detector company," the former Test captain and opener said.
Butt didn't appear in person in a London court earlier this week where a preliminary hearing was held to decide if the crown prosecution office had a criminal case against Butt and his teammates, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.
The court ruled there was a strong case to proceed against the banned trio.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) cricket committee recently floated the idea that lie detectors have the potential to fight corruption in cricket and stressed that the proposal should be widely debated.