Jailed Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammed Asif have been transferred to Canterbury Prison.

The pair were convicted earlier this month of spot fixing following a trial at Southwark Crown Court and were sentenced to two-and-a-half years and a year respectively.

Both were also banned from the game for at least five years.

A third player, Mohammed Amir, was sentenced to six months after earlier pleading guilty.

Butt, the former test captain and Asif, an opening bowler, were initially transferred to Wandsworth Prison but moved to Canterbury on Thursday, a Category C prison which houses foreign nationals serving up to five years.

The spot-fixing affair centred around the Lord’s test match between England and Pakistan in August 2010.

An undercover investigation by News of the World reporter Mazher Mahmood found the three players had been offered money to deliberately bowl no balls by player’s agent Mazhar Majeed.