PAKISTAN cricketer Mohammad Asif has been released from jail after serving half of a 12-month sentence for his part in a fixing scam. Asif, 29, the former world number two Test bowler, was freed from Canterbury Prison in Kent yesterday morning, according to his lawyers, SJS Solicitors, based in Balham, South London.
He was one of three Pakistan cricketers who received custodial sentences at London’s Southwark Crown Court in November over a scandal that rocked world sport.
Ex-Test captain Salman Butt, 27, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for his role as the “orchestrator” of a plot to bowl deliberate no-balls in the 2010 Lord’s Test against England.
Mohammad Amir, 19, who had been tipped to become one of the all-time great fast bowlers, was released from Portland Prison in Dorset in February after serving half of his six-month sentence.
Mazhar Majeed, 36, the corrupt London-based sports agent at the heart of the fixing scandal, was jailed for two years and eight months.
Amir and Butt failed in an attempt to have their sentences reduced at the Court of Appeal in November.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We do not comment on individuals.
“Foreign national offenders released from prison on licence will be supervised by probation for as long as they remain in this country.” (PA Sport)