Spot-fixing Saga Continues: Muhammad Asif and Salman Butt to Challenge Their Conviction

Spot-fixing Case Updates: Salman Butt and Muhammad Asif have already shown their intentions to challenge the verdict passed by London superior court.

Tainted Trio and Bookie Mazhar Majeed

"We are considering an appeal against conviction, not sentence," a representative of Asif's legal team was quoted as saying by a cricket website.

The spot-fixing case ended, after 20-day of continuous hearings, on Thursday with former Test captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir being sentenced varying jail terms.



Muhammad Asif was pleaded guilty of bowling a no-ball, on specific time set by bookies in advance, in the Lord's Test against England last year, after taking money from convicted bookie Mazhar Majeed, who was sentenced to 32 months in prison.


Asif refuted the allegations against him and his lawyers maintained that no money was ever recovered from him. Now Asif's lawyers are set to appeal against his conviction in the spot-fixing scam and, if successful, it could lead to his release from prison.

On the other hand, Upset with the Pakistan Cricket Board’s tackling of the spot-fixing case at the end of which led to three of country’s cricketers were sentenced jail terms by the UK court, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has advised PCB to provide all required legal help to the tainted trio.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said president Zardari, also the patron-in-chief of the PCB, is annoyed with the way the matter was handled with by the Board. Malik said that he had briefed the president on the trial and sentences handed to the three players.


Now only the time will tell how PCB will react to the worsened conditions, after instructions from Zardari, under the newly appointed chairman Zaka Ashraf.