Three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of illegal betting allegations are innocent, Pakistans high commissioner to Britain said Thursday after meeting the players. Pakistan High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan told a scrum of media that Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif had declared their innocence and vowed to fight the allegations. The three players have said that they are extremely disturbed by what has happened in the past week, especially in regard of their alleged involvement in the crime, Hasan told reporters. They mentioned that they are entirely innocent in the whole episode and shall defend their innocence as such. Hasan said the trio had requested to be withdrawn from Pakistans remaining fixtures on their tour of England due to the mental torture they had suffered since the scandal broke.