UK-based membership cricketer Rizwan Javed was on Thursday banned for 17-and-a-half years from all cricket for making varied makes an attempt to repair matches throughout the Abu Dhabi T10 League in 2021.
“Rizwan Javed has received a lengthy ban from cricket for his repeated and serious attempts to corrupt professional cricketers,” ICC General Manager Integrity, Alex Marshall stated in an ICC assertion.
“The sanction imposed should send a strong message to other corrupters trying to target cricket at any level and demonstrates that any attempt to corrupt cricket will be strongly dealt with.” Abu Dhabi T10, authorized by Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), was launched in 2017 Rizwan is amongst eight gamers and officers charged by the ICC on behalf of the ECB in September final yr.
Bangladesh all-rounder Nasir Hossain was additionally named amongst these charged and is at the moment serving a two-year ban.
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The ban, which dates again to September 19, 2023, was imposed after Rizwan failed to answer expenses associated to his involvement within the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 Cricket League.
He confronted expenses below varied articles of the Anti-Corruption Code, together with making an attempt to repair matches within the Abu Dhabi T10 2021 on three separate events (Article 2.1.1).
He was additionally charged with providing rewards to induce corrupt conduct (Article 2.1.3), and failing to reveal full particulars of approaches obtained to interact in corrupt conduct (Article 2.4.4).
Additionally, he was charged with failing or refusing, with out compelling justification, to cooperate with any investigation (Article 2.4.6).
By failing to answer the fees, Rizwan was deemed responsible of the offences and waived his proper to a listening to.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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