The three Pakistan cricketers accused of spotfixing will have their appeals against a provisional ban from all cricket heard in Qatar at the end of this month.
Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif are trying to overturn the International Cricket Council sanction after Amir and Asif were accused of deliberately bowling noballs during the Lord's Test against England in August.
Sources in Pakistan have indicated that Amir and Butt had wanted to bring their hearings forward to give them a chance of being chosen for the series against South Africa, which begins with a Twenty20 international in Abu Dhabi on 26 October.
However, the appeal will start four days later and be presided over by Michael Beloff QC, who is head of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: "The appeals are against the provisional suspension only and will not consider the substantive charges that were laid against them."
