<p>The two tried to lay the blame on each other during the trial, which concluded with Butt being jailed for two and a half years while Asif getting a one-year sentence.<br /><br />"There is a certain gallows humour about the situation. They had no choice, it's the prison authorities who make the call. The batsman and the bowler remain together but with no room for a run-up let alone room to overstep the mark," a prison source was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Mail'.<br /><br />In the witness stand during the trial, Asif had accused Butt of abusing him before he bowled the second of the three pre-determined no balls in conspiracy with convicted bookie Mazhar Majeed, who has been sentenced to 32 months in prison.<br /><br />At that time, Butt's lawyer Ali Bajwa QC had suggested that Asif was fabricating his story to justify the no-ball. Bajwa had also accused Asif of "untruthfully downplaying" his relationship with the Majeed brothers.<br /><br />Asif had also insinuated that Butt had to have been involved with an alleged fix to bowl no-balls in a Test match.<br /><br />"The captain knows. What I have told you the last two days...the captain knows. He is the one who brings them (bowlers) on," he had stated in the Southwark Crown Court during the trial.</p>
<p>The two tried to lay the blame on each other during the trial, which concluded with Butt being jailed for two and a half years while Asif getting a one-year sentence.<br /><br />"There is a certain gallows humour about the situation. They had no choice, it's the prison authorities who make the call. The batsman and the bowler remain together but with no room for a run-up let alone room to overstep the mark," a prison source was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Mail'.<br /><br />In the witness stand during the trial, Asif had accused Butt of abusing him before he bowled the second of the three pre-determined no balls in conspiracy with convicted bookie Mazhar Majeed, who has been sentenced to 32 months in prison.<br /><br />At that time, Butt's lawyer Ali Bajwa QC had suggested that Asif was fabricating his story to justify the no-ball. Bajwa had also accused Asif of "untruthfully downplaying" his relationship with the Majeed brothers.<br /><br />Asif had also insinuated that Butt had to have been involved with an alleged fix to bowl no-balls in a Test match.<br /><br />"The captain knows. What I have told you the last two days...the captain knows. He is the one who brings them (bowlers) on," he had stated in the Southwark Crown Court during the trial.</p>