Lord MacLaurin, Chairman of the ECB, has attempted to put the corruption issue to one side as England prepare to play Pakistan in a Test and one-day series.

"I am very pleased that England are back in Pakistan and there is no question of anyone being ineligible to play against us," he explained to The Times.

MacLaurin had originally called for players implicated by the Qayyum Report to be suspended. He is now happy to agree with the majority view of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, and accept all the Pakistan players were criticized, but not found guilty, in the report.

"I said in advance of the meeting that anyone whose honesty in the past had been in doubt or who did not co-operate fully with the judicial inquiry in Pakistan should be suspended until their innocence was proved or otherwise, but we are only one voice in 10 and we had a very fair discussion of the whole issue," MacLaurin told The Times.

"Things may have moved a bit slowly on bribery and corruption, but everyone from all the countries is unanimous about how we should deal with it."

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