Pakistan's disgraced cricketers, Salman Butt and Mohammed Aamer returned home on Sunday after being banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption tribunal on corruption charges but faced no harsh reactions from the people at the airport. The two players came out quietly from the terminal building and slipped away in their waiting cars but not before insisting they were innocent of the spot-fixing charges brought against them. Talking to reporters inside the terminal building, the two banned players said they were shocked and still at a loss over the bans imposed on them. "The punishments handed out were harsh. We are innocent and we intend to use every avenue to get the bans overturned," former Test captain Butt said.
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