The 28-year-old was banned for 10 years, with the possibility of five suspended, for his role in arranging no balls to order in the match, but will appeal against the sentence at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, today.

Butt, who was jailed by a British court over the scandal, said the suspension was a career-ending punishment. “It may be easy for some people to say that a five-year ban from cricket is all right but what they don’t realise is that for a sportsman like me this is like a lifetime ban. My whole family and my life is disturbed,” he said in a statement issued by his lawyer.