On this day 3 Pakistan Cricketers and an agent were arrested for conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments at Southwark crown court. In 2011, on this day, cricket was in the news for all the wrong reasons. However, it was perhaps in the news for the right reasons too in the sense that they were cleaning up their act by handing out punishments of such scale. Salman Butt's wife was giving birth at the time of the verdict. Former cricketers such as Michael Atherton were in attendance to see the verdict unfold at first hand.