Former Sri Lanka and Deccan Chargers (now Sunrisers Hyderabad) paceman Nuwan Zoysa has been banned from all cricket for six years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal discovered him responsible of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The ban for Zoysa is backdated to 31 October 2018, when he was provisionally suspended.
As beforehand suggested, following full hearings and displays of written and oral argument, the ICC Tribunal discovered Zoysa responsible of:
Article 2.1.1 – for being occasion to an settlement or effort to repair or contrive or in any other case affect improperly the end result, progress, conduct or different side(s) of an International Match.
Article 2.1.4 – Directly or not directly soliciting, inducing, attractive, instructing, persuading, encouraging or deliberately facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.
Article 2.4.4 – Failing to confide in the ACU full particulars of any approaches or invites obtained to have interaction in corrupt conduct beneath the Code.
“Zoysa has also been charged by the ICC on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) with breaching three counts of the ECB Anti-Corruption Code for Participants for the T10 League and these proceedings are ongoing,” an ICC assertion learn.
Zoysa performed in 30 Tests and 95 ODIs for Sri Lanka, selecting up 64 and 108 wickets respectively within the two format. In his eighth Test, Zoysa turned the primary participant within the historical past to take a hat-trick off his first three balls of a Test match. He achieved this in opposition to Zimbabwe at Harare in November 1999, dismissing Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson.
The former Lankan left-arm paceman performed in three video games for Deccan Chargers, who at the moment are in IPL 2021 as Sunrisers Hyderabad beneath new house owners.
“Nuwan played 125 matches for Sri Lanka, attending a number of anti-corruption sessions during a decade-long international career. In his role as a national coach, he should have acted as a role model. Instead, he became involved with a corrupter and attempted to corrupt others. Contriving to fix a game betrays the basis of sporting principles. It will not be tolerated in our sport,” Alex Marshall, ICC General Manager – Integrity Unit, stated.
