Spot-fixing case: Butt, Asif, Amir file appeals against ban

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Spot-fixing case: Butt, Asif, Amir file appeals against ban

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Lawyers acting for Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) against their clients' five-year bans for spot-fixing.

26 February,2011 08:03 pm

In a statement issued Saturday through his lawyer Yasin Patel, Butt, who received a further five-year suspended ban, also said he will appear at Londons City of Westminster Magistrates Court for a hearing to face criminal charges on Mar. 17.Britains Crown Prosecution Service said earlier this month that Butt and Amir, along with a third player Mohammad Asif and their agent Mazhar Majeed, had been summoned on charges of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments and conspiracy to cheat.Amir was banned for five years, while fast bowler Asif was handed a seven-year ban with two suspended, after an ICC anti-corruption tribunal in Doha earlier this month found all three men guilty of bowling no-balls at prearranged times during the fourth test against England in August.Amirs lawyer Shahid Karim said he filed his clients appeal to CAS on Friday. The process is now to set to motion, we have challenged the judgment of the tribunal on various grounds, Karim said.The three men were suspended in September after British tabloid the News of the World alleged the players took money from businessman Majeed to fix betting markets. Majeed has also been summoned for the Mar. 17 hearing.