A Pakistan Cricket Board official has confirmed that former international batsman Nasir Jamshed and another man were arrested and then released on bail in Britain over alleged spot fixing in the Pakistan Super League.
"Jamshed and another man, Yusuf, were arrested by the National Crime Agency," a PCB official said.
Britain's National Crime Authority released an earlier statement saying two men in their 30s had been arrested and released on bail until April in connection with bribery offences as part of an ongoing investigation into international cricket match spot-fixing.
The PCB has already provisionally suspended Islamabad United's Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif from the domestic Twenty20 tournament because of their alleged involvement in the corruption.
Sharjeel and Latif returned to Lahore on Wednesday and faced more interviews with the cricket board's anti-corruption unit.
Jamshed was suspended Monday from competing in any form of cricket.
A third Islamabad United player is also under investigation and a player each from the Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators franchises were questioned by the PCB's anti-corruption unit.
All three players were allowed to continue playing in the tournament.
"We know what we are doing," PSL chairman Najam Sethi said.
"We have all the evidence and we knew this for a while. We had information, but we cannot talk about stuff right now, a charge sheet will be given to players soon."
Sethi said the PCB's anti-corruption unit had information about spot-fixing before the PSL began on February 9.
He the cricket board's anti-corruption unit had infiltrated gambling operations in Pakistan ahead of the tournament.
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