International Cricket Council has found three Pakistani cricketers – Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir guilty of spot-fixing and banned them for lengthy periods. While Salman Butt has been banned for 10 years with five years of suspended sentence, Mohammed Asif has been sanctioned for seven years with two years suspended. Mohammad Amir has been banned for five years. The verdict was announced after a lengthy nine-hour hearing in front of ICC's three-man tribunal — comprising Michael Beloff QC, Sharad Rao and Justice Albie Sachs — and the players and their legal teams at the Qatar Financial Center in Doha. There was lot of drama and argument in the hearing as the players' lawyers requested the ICC to adjourn the verdict as it could have an impact on the criminal case filed by UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) against the players in London on Friday. The charges relate to alleged incidents of corruption during a Test match against England at Lord's last year when a British tabloid claimed the players were involved in spot-fixing. The players have been suspended by ICC from all forms of cricket since September 3 last year after the tabloid alleged that they bowled deliberate no-balls at prearranged times during the fourth Test at Lord's. The trio were alleged to have obtained 150,000 pounds through a bookie Mazhar Majeed who was believed to have accepted 50,000 pound to set up the deal.