GENEVA: The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday said that it had rejected appeals against spot-fixing bans filed by disgraced former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt and spin bowler Mohammad Asif.
“The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by the Pakistani cricket players Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt against the decisions taken by the International Cricket Council Tribunal on 5 February 2011,” it said in a statement.
Butt received a 10-year ban, five years of which were suspended, and Asif was barred for seven years, with two suspended, following a probe of the deliberate bowling of no balls at a Test match in London in 2010.
“The appeal has been rejected,” Butt’s lawyer, Yasin Patel, told AFP from London, refusing to elaborate further. Butt is expected to speak to the press shortly in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
Butt and two of his fast bowlers, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, were all banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2011 after being found guilty of deliberately contriving no-balls in return for money in the Lord’s Test in England in 2010.
The now-defunct British newspaper the News of the World exposed the players in a sting operation involving their agent Mazhar Majeed who struck a deal for 150,000 pounds ($230,000) with an undercover reporter.
Butt, now 28, was banned for 10 years with the possibility of five suspended and all three were jailed in England in November 2011.
Amir, banned for five years, pleaded guilty in court and decided not to appeal against the ICC ban, while a decision on Asif’s appeal was still awaited.
The appeals of Butt and Asif were heard by a three-member CAS panel led by lawyer Graham Mew and accompanied by Romano Subiotto and Robert Reid.
Amazed that CAS did not have even a single issue with the earlier verdict. This proves how clear the evidence must have been against them.
Good thing for Aamer to sit it out. However its unfortunate that Aamer can't play until Sept. 2015. Hence he will miss the 2015 WC as well. Bad. However that is how justice rolls.
GENEVA: The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday said that it had rejected appeals against spot-fixing bans filed by disgraced former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt and spin bowler Mohammad Asif.
hayn, was Asif's bowling so slow that they called him spin bowler? Anyways, good riddance.
Ok so why did Zaka Ashraf not ask both of them to accept their crime..instead we have a ICC asking them to admit…shameful…they continue to pretend nothing happened
I believe in forgiveness, these cheats should at least be allowed to play domestic or league level cricket under strict scrutiny.
But for people to forgive them they need to accept and ask for forgiveness of their guilt. Instead at least butt is still claiming that he is innocent (after admitting it to court and serving the jail term).
Like they do in America, they should stop fooling innocent public, come on TV , admit their guilt, cry shry a bit and ask for forgiveness. Our people are emotional they will forgive them and wont object if these guys play non international cricket.
…Speaking at a press conference at his residence in Lahore on Friday, Butt admitted to the spot-fixing charges against him, and said he accepts all decisions of the ICC…
