PAKISTAN duo Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will be eligible to return to competitive cricket on September 2 after serving bans for corrupt behaviour on the 2010 tour of England, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced.

Their co-conspirator Mohammad Amir has already returned to domestic cricket having been given dispensation by the ICC and will become available for international duty on the same date — just over a month before England play Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.

A statement from the world governing body read: “The ICC today confirmed that the sanctions against Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will expire at midnight on September 1 2015 and that they will be eligible to return to competitive cricket, at both domestic and international levels, on September 2 2015 after fulfilling the specific conditions laid down by the independent anti-corruption tribunal.”