The two Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir, who had been given custodial terms for their alleged involvement in a spot-fixing scam which has shocked the integrity of sport, are willing and going to challenge their sentences.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, sitting with two other judges at the Court of Appeal in London, will be hearing this case.

Former-Test captain Salman Butt, Twenty-seven, who has been jailed for two and a half years for his role as the "mastermind" of the plot to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord's Test versus England last summer.

Amir, 19, who had been tipped for being one of the all-time great fast bowlers, was detained for six months in a young offenders' institution after he admitted bowling 2 intentional no-balls at Lord's Test.

Both had been sentenced at London's Southwark Crown Court on Nov 3.

Former world no. two Test fast bowler Mohammad Asif, 28, had been given a 12-month prison term for delivering one of few fraudulent no-balls.
It's been reported that he also is planning to initiate an appeal, but it has not yet been affirmed by the court.

Passing sentence at the crown court, Mr Justice Cooke said that the cricketers and a fourth accused, a London-based sports agent, had harmed the integrity of cricket and betrayed all fans of sport through their greed.