LAUSANNE: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif expressed hope on Thursday that the Court of Arbitration for Sport will overturn his ban for spot-fixing, as the verdict is due within three weeks, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on Friday.
“Today was quite busy,” Asif said after the end of a day-long hearing behind closed doors at the CAS’s Swiss headquarters. “They will give us their decision in the next three weeks.”
“Hopefully I am going to win this case. I’d like to play cricket again,” he added. Muhammad Asif said he is desirous to play again for his team.
On Friday, Pakistan captain Salman Butt is due to attend a CAS appeal hearing on his own ban.
Skipper Butt and fast bowlers Asif and Mohammad Aamer were 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 the then teenager Aamer for five years.
“It’s a high-profile case of two world-class players with the whole cricket world focused on it and we will fight to get the ban overturned,” Asif’s lawyer Ravi Sukul told media from London.
“Asif was a terrific bowler and and it was terribly unfortunate that a bowler of his class suffered this, but we will try our best to get this ban overturned and Asif is in high spirits,” he added.
DND
