Butt, Asif appeals to be heard in February: CAS
Mohammad Asif. -Photo by Reuters
KARACHI: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday confirmed it will hear appeals from Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, two years after they were banned for spot-fixing.
The CAS website and both players said the appeals against the International Cricket Council (ICC) bans will be heard between February 5-8 next year.
“Asif’s appeal will be heard between 5-7 February while Butt’s appeal will be taken up on February 8,” the CAS confirmed from its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Captain Butt and fast bowlers Asif and Mohammad Aamer were all banned by the ICC for contriving to bowl deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s Test between Pakistan and England in August 2010.
Butt was banned for 10 years, with five suspended, Asif for seven years with two suspended and teenager Aamer for five years.
The trio were also jailed by a British court over the scandal in November 2011. All three were released earlier this year after completing half of their sentences.
Aamer decided not to pursue his appeal to the CAS after pleading guilty to the charges before the UK court.
Asif, who returned home last week, confirmed his appeal will be heard in February.
“I had filed the appeal after the ban but could not pursue it because of the criminal proceedings, but now it will be taken up by the CAS in the first week of February,” Asif told AFP.
Butt said he was looking forward to the hearing.
“I have not talked to my lawyer for a few days but he knows exactly about the appeal in the CAS and I hope justice will be done,” he said.
This is world – these guys should’nt talk about the word “justice” since they give very bad name to the country and did un-justice to the country. I thin they forget the meaning of Justice.
I think they should be banned for life, THEN justice will be done and they are asking for it !!!
Butt and Asif are standing up to the ICC for justice. We should support any Pakistani standing up for justice against the imperialistic west.
let this be known to these cricketers…..
they were wrong, they got punished.
they brought shame to Pakistan, the very Pakistan that gave them an identity and honour.
I am in no doubt that these cricketers can go to any length to gain money, they can even sell their own mothers if need be.
Shame on you…
mudassar,uk
Lets not be judgemental guys.. CAS is impartial and the highest authority they can go to. Do you realsie how much money this has been costing Asif & Butt.. ? PCB does not give a penny towards the cases they are fighting… these cases cost hundreds of thousand and more… Only someone who has a point to make and their dignity to save will do this.
ICC can’t be impartial in deciding a legal case themselves.. any organisation can have disciplanry procedures but the way I think ICC dealt with the situation has always been in question. From day 1 the ball was thrown in Pakistan’s court. I dont want to make Pakistan sound like its victim of a mass politics or something.. but having read the general script of court proceedings ” which let me add, the documentation was made very hard to obtain” via cricinfo etc.. the interrogation seemed to have been quite biased. I think Amir has something to hide… he made a guilty plea to escape the ban becuase people sympathised with him due to his age. I was not convinced by his interview with Alec Stewart, speically when he tries to explain why he gave his bank details to someone who did not know him.
If these chaps think that justice was not done, they live on a different planet. Rest of us, in spite of the shenanigans of the PCB and others, know when thieves are caught red handed, guilt issue is decided.
What do they mean by “Justice”?
I don’t think that they have this in mind that justice wasn’t done. That what eats them inside is that why are they punished when many others are gone free and are still enjoying the cack.
because they were caught red handed!
I struggle to see the difference between these guys, and those issued with non-payment of tax notices, both doing the nation an injustice by claiming ‘justice’.