The decisions strengthen our resolve to always remain vigilant and keep the game clean at all cost, whilst continuing to educate the players about the threats and ways to combat the challenges faced by our sport.For those reasons, the panel was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Asif was a party to the spot-fixing conspiracy.Butt's legal advisor Amer Rahman added: "Salman has been in a very dark place over the last few years and he was hoping that he would be successful in this appeal.All Salman has ever wanted is to play the sport he loves. It is therefore extremely disappointing that the decision has gone against him," said Daniel Rajah, Butt's solicitor. Cas says Butt did not contest his liability in the case but had requested a shortening of the ban, while Asif had request the annulment of the ICC's decision on procedural grounds.Team-mate Asif also had his appeal heard on Thursday and discovered shortly after Butt that he too had failed to have his ban overturned.The statement said: "The Cas panel was not persuaded that the sanction imposed by the ICC Tribunal was disproportionate, nor that any of the mitigating factors advanced by Mr Butt qualified as exceptional circumstances.The third Pakistan cricketer, Amir, who was 18 at the time of the offence, was was banned for five years and sentenced to six months in jail. He did not appeal against his ban.The Cas panel found that there was no evidence advanced by Mr Asif which clearly exculpated him and that his submissions did not break the chain of circumstantial evidence or in any way undermine the reasoning contained in the ICC Tribunal's decision.
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