A London court has handed out jail terms to the three players and their agent found guilty in the spot-fixing case drawing the curtains on one of cricket's most sordid and shameful sagas.Salman Butt has been sentenced to two and a half years jail, Mohammad Asif has got a one-year jail sentence and his fellow fast bowler Mohammad Amir six months. Mazhar Majeed, the players' agent, has been sentenced to two years and eight months.
They will serve half the time in custody and then be released on license , with conditions which, if broken, would see them back in detention for the remainder of their term.
The four men had been charged with conspiracy to accept corrupt payments, and conspiracy to cheat in regard to the Lord's Test against England in August 2010, when the three pre-determined no-balls were bowled - two by Amir and one by Asif, orchestrated by Butt and arranged by Majeed. While Amir and Majeed had pleaded guilty before the trial began, Butt and Asif denied the charges and were found guilty by a jury on Tuesday.
All of them had so much potential, especially Amir,as I reckon his bowling was very good. Great future gone to gutter.Its a gloomy phase for the cricketing world. Let's hope that such incidents don't occur ever again in world cricket.
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