Muhammad Asif likely to be released on May 4

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Muhammad Asif likely to be released on May 4

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Pakistani cricketer Muhammad Asif is expected to be released by the London court on May 4.

13 April,2012 10:37 pm

Disgraced cricketer Mohammad Asif would be released on 4 May from the Canterbury Jail after serving 6 month jail sentence for spot-fixing, said his lawyer.According to the Asifs lawyer Ravi Sukul, they were waiting for release orders, adding that final date of his release has not yet received.He said that if Asif was deported from England then they would challenge it in the court. He said that Asif already pleaded not guilty in the British and International Arbitrary Court.Earlier, Mohammad Amir, one of the three disgraced Pakistani cricketers convicted by a UK court for spot fixing, was released after serving sentence in the same spot fixing case in February.Salman Butt, a former captain of Pakistan cricket squad and the third member of the disgraced trio convicted in the spot-fixing case, is still serving sentence at the Canterbury jail.