Butt files appeal against sentence

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Salman Butt has filed an appeal against a 30-month prison sentence for match fixing.

08 November,2011 09:42 pm

Lawyer Yasin Patel confirmed to The Associated Press in an Email that an appeal has been filed against the sentence handed down at Londons Southwark Crown Court last week.Fast bowler Mohammad Asif was also sent to prison for 1 year and teenage fast bowler Mohammad Amir for six months for bowling no-balls at prearranged times during a test match last year in order to fix spot-betting markets.Agent Mazhar Majeed, who was secretly filmed by a reporter of a British tabloid accepting 150,000 pounds ($242,000), got the stiffest punishment when he was sent to jail for 2 years, 8 months.