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Summary Salman Butt decided to appeal against his 30-month sentence on Thursday.
Speaking to the media, his lawyer Paul Harris said that on behalf of Salman Butt he simply want to confirm that they would be appealing the sentence and launching grounds of appeal against it in the next 24 hours.He was speaking outside Southwark Crown Court, where Butt had earlier been sentenced for his part in pre-arranging no-balls during Pakistans Test match against England in August 2010.Butt was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for conspiring to accept corrupt payments, with a two-year sentence for conspiring to cheat at gambling to run concurrently.He was also ordered to pay 30,937 pounds ($49,560, 36,050 euros) towards the costs of the prosecution, payable forthwith as it is already in the possession of the police.Butts teammates Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were also jailed, as was their British agent Mazhar Majeed.
