Butt files appeal against sentence

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Butt files appeal against sentence

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Former Pakistani cricket team captain filed a petition against his sentence in spot-fixing case.

09 November,2011 09:09 pm

Disgraced Pakistan cricketer Salman Butt has filed an appeal against a 30-month prison sentence for spot-fixing.Lawyer Yasin Patel confirmed to The Associated Press in an email on Wednesday that an appeal was filed against the sentence handed down in a London court last week. Yes, replied Patel to APs query whether Butt filed the appeal.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 against England 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.In February, the International Cricket Council banned the players for five years each for rigging the match at Lords.Families of the disgraced cricketers have rejected the sentences, but theres little sympathy for them in a country of 180 million people.While Butt and Asif seem to have virtually no chance to revive their cricketing careers, Amir, who will be 24 in five years, could make a comeback after completing his sentencing and the ICC suspension.