Twitter alert: From cricket kits, to jail uniforms

The Pakistani cricket trio, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, were given prison sentences on Thursday by a crown court judge in London after being found guilty in a spot-fixing case.

Local Twitter users were divided over the sentencing; some felt sympathy for the players being jailed, while others felt they got what they deserved.

Here are some of the top tweets:

Judging by people's tweets it seems as if they discovered corruption in cricket with the trial of the Pakistan trio. Precedence exists.