Pakistani trio to be deported from UK after completion of sentences – Cricket News Update
The jailed and banned Pakistani trio of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-Butt-c2418 is likely to be deported by the British Government after the completion of their ongoing imprisonment terms. If this happens, none of them will be able to land on the English
soil for at least 10 years.
A British newspaper, The Daily Mail, has broken this story along with revelation that the threesome has been shifted from Wandsworth Prison to HMP http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canterbury-c775, which is a C category jail, especially designed for overseas prisoners.
“Earlier this week Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were transferred from Wandsworth Prison to HMP Canterbury, which in 2007 became the first unit in Britain converted to house foreign criminals convicted in this country,” the paper wrote.
It further reported, “Deportation from the UK automatically incurs a 10-year ban from entering the country again, which would prevent Amir from returning to play cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 once his five-year International Cricket Council suspension ends in 2015.”
As per the recent ruling of the Southwark Crown Court, Butt has been jailed for 30 months, while Asif and Amir are bound to stay behind bars for 12 and 6 months respectively.
The three young and talented Pakistani cricketers have received this severe punishment for practicing spot-fixing during a Pakistan-England Test match at Lord’s, in August 2010. Butt was captaining the team in that awful game which initiated the worst cricket
controversy of this decade.
After coming into effect, the deportation will be the third penalty in a row after a 5-year ban by International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) and a recent detention by the Crown Court.
As it is being already predicted that the professional careers of the trio have been destroyed, the possible deportation will render the tainted players totally unable to play International cricket. Even Amir, who is merely 19-years-old at the moment, is
also not expected to return to action after passing through all these chastisements.
Furthermore, the players’ home fans and cricket administrators are not likely to incorporate them in the national cricket mainstream, which has already earned sheer disrepute for the scandal.
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