ACSU to meet Asif and Butt (Dunya News)

[Shahzebayub]

In jail it is expected that anti corrpution unit will meet butt and asif

[Muhammad Waleed]

will they ask them about other players involved in it?

[Wised up]

Why? meeting them now doesn't make any sense.

[shehzi]

The meeting is held to convince Asif and Butt to admit their mistakes, if they do so their Bans will be reduced - Dunya TV
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I doubt Butt will agree on this because he knows his career is OVER anyway, but Amir reduced ban will mean he will play the next worldcup

[Ironcat]

The meeting is held to convince Asif and Butt to admit their mistakes, if they do so their Bans will be reduced - Dunya TV
LOL. Father ACSU in the town. Repent baby, repent.

[Usman]

I think this news is made up. As the ICC said, the only appeals process is through CAS and the ICC has no power to reduce the bans itself. Wouldn't be the first time Dunya news got something wrong.

[Indiafan]

Why would ASCU want to reduce the ban particularly after the players were convicted by a criminal court?

[kamz]

I think CAS will eliminate the ban from ICC after they have served their sentences handed over by the crown court. but that is then and yet to be challenged too

[Fuzzy]

Jailed Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif could have the suspended elements of their worldwide bans from the game enforced following their criminal convictions last week.
By Nick Hoult
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/pakistan/8877631/No-reprieve-for-Salman-Butt-and-Mohammad-Asif-if-they-stonewall-ICC-investigations.html

Butt and Asif were banned from the game for a minimum of five years in January. Butt had a further five years suspended and Asif two.

Those suspended periods will be enforced unless the pair help the ICC with any further anti-corruption investigations the governing body pursues after reviewing evidence unearthed during the prosecutions which saw Butt jailed for 2½ years last week and Asif for 12 months.

ICC investigators have been given evidence collated by Scotland Yard detectives which could lead to further investigations of the Pakistan team which toured England last year.

The ICC’s anti-corruption unit would like to speak with Butt and Asif while they are in a British jail and if either harbour any hope of playing cricket again, helping with ACU investigations will go a long way towards rehabilitating their cricket careers before it is too late.

“One of the key elements of their punishment was joining an anti-corruption programme, to show remorse and admit their guilt,” said a source close to the case. “They have not done that; it seems like they are on course for serving the full sentence of the bans.”

Mohammad Amir does not face a suspended sentence and will be eligible to resume playing once his five-year ban expires in September 2015.

Butt will be 31 by then and could conceivably eke out a cricket career but has not shown a shred of remorse or willingness to work with the authorities since the scandal broke last year.

Asif, 28, will probably be too old to play Test cricket again but his experience and skill as a Twenty20 bowler saw him earn an IPL salary of $650,000 (£400,000) in 2008 and the shorter format may offer him a route back into the game when his ban ends. However, Asif also pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court and, like Butt, appears set to appeal.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has launched another inquiry into the spot-fixing scandal and is investigating whether Mazhar Majeed, the agent and ringleader of the fix who was also jailed last week, remained in contact with the Pakistan team even after the News of the World expose in August 2010. The PCB believes Majeed may have been in contact with the Pakistan team when they toured the West Indies earlier this year.