Bangladesh national women’s team cricketer Shohaly Akhter has been banned by International Cricket Council from all forms of cricket for five years.
The 36-year old off-spinner in an investigation by the ICC admitted breaching five provisions of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
The ICC slammed the ban on the Bangladeshi cricketer Tuesday through a media release.
Shohaly’s charges relate to corrupt approaches made in relation to matches in the ICC Women’s Twenty20 World Cup 2023 held in South Africa.
Shohaly admitted to being in breach of the following provisions of the Code:
“Article 2.1.1: Fixing or contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly or being a party to any agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any international match, including (without limitation) by deliberately underperforming therein.”
“Article 2.1.3: Seeking, accepting, offering or agreeing to accept any bribe or other reward to (a) fix or to contrive in any way or otherwise to influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of any international match or (b) to ensure for betting or other corrupt purposes the occurrence of a particular incident in an international match.”
“Article 2.1.4: Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any participant to breach any of the foregoing provisions of this Article 2.1.”
“Article 2.4.4: Failing to disclose to the ACU (without unnecessary delay) full details of any approaches or invitations received by the participant to engage in corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code.”
“Article 2.4.7: Obstructing or delaying any investigation that may be carried out by the ACU in relation to possible corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code (by any participant), including (without limitation) concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code.”
Shohaly since her international debut played two Women’s One Day Internationals and 13 T20 Internationals and made her last appearance in the 2022 Women’s Asia Cup held in Bangladesh.
