Regardless of the fact there is no evidence of this it does not in any way exonerate or lessen his level of guilty.
If a person commits a crime for his benefit or the benefit of someone else makes no difference, Asif committed the crime so that Mazhar would benefit financially so what ever the SMS's provide Asif is guilty of committing the crime for payment, whether Mazhar or Asif got the money makes no difference.
Just because there is no record of him receiving any money makes no difference as I'm sure you know that.
Look, [MENTION=732]Gilly[/MENTION], you and I argue but deep down I often find your criticisms of me a wakeup call when I'm going over the top. New Zealand last year being a good example!
It's a drawback of my polemical style that I do go a bit over the top.
I find the Asif case really challenging, to be honest.
I think your comments about him doing the crime and being rightfully convicted to be something that I 100% support in terms of the ICC.
But I am very, very strongly convinced that his criminal conviction will be overturned, largely due to the Fake Sheikh's malpractice.
Back to Asif's case. I spend a lot of the year on the road in hotels. When the Police raided the rooms, they found that Salman Butt's room was a kind of Donald Trump Tacky Emporium of Bling, with a safe full of marked bank notes and tacky designer watches. But Asif had the room of a 55 year old grandpa. No evidence of any type of purchases or anything else. And the only link he had in London was Mazhar Majeed, and his house was raided too, with no sign of any separate money from Asif.
Lastly, I am going to really kill my own Asif argument here.
I think that you are all wrong to focus too much on the criminal and cricketing convictions and to ignore the other evidence that was captured on the same tape.
The tape contains a confession by Mazhar Majeed that he had been matchfixing Pakistan matches for over a year, specifically including the Sydney Test, and not using Amir, Asif or Butt to do so. It also contains a clear comment that there was either one or two other matchfixing cliques in the 2010 Pakistan dressing room.
This fits completely with what happened on the pitch. Mazhar Majeed specifically confessed to fixing the 2009-10 Sydney Test , but if you look at the first two Tests in Sri Lanka five months earlier the collapses which lost them are scarcely credible.
So we have a confession to prior fixing and three matches which are at best suspicious.
Asif was banned from the Sri Lanka games and clearly was not responsible for the Sydney defeat, not least because the self-confessed fixer explicitly says so. In fact, he took 6-41 in that match.
This is the problem. We can't accept the guilt of Amir, Asif and Butt from the NOTW video evidence but then disregard the rest of the video, which contains a confession by the fixer to actually fixing matches but not using those players.
Either the video is believable or it isn't.
I believe what I have always believed. Mazhar Majeed was telling the truth in the video - he was a matchfixer, but Amir, Asif and Butt were not the Pakistan players who had previously fixed for him. That's what the hidden video evidence recorded.
So yes, Amir, Asif and Butt did the crime and were correctly banned. But their crime was just a newspaper sting. The real Pakistan fixers have got away with it. And when you read the book "Bookie, Gambler, Fixer, Spy" and look at the relevant scorecards for the suspicious matches, I find that it just makes me want to vomit when it becomes obvious who the fixers were.
Does that make the other two bigger sinners then Amir? Absolutely not!
Are you basically (again!) trying to say that Butt & Amir are more guilty then Asif but just in a round about way - yet (again!) still with no explanation or evidence? 
good come back mate
stop behaving like a child MATE 
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