Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful has had his eight-year ban for involvement in Bangladesh Premier League match fixing reduced to a five-year punishment. Photo: AFP
Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful has had his eight-year ban for involvement in Bangladesh Premier League match fixing reduced to a five-year punishment, with suspension of two years, by the disciplinary panel chief of Bangladesh Cricket Board.
On 22 July 2014, Ashraful appealed to the disciplinary chairman Justice Mohammad Abdur Rashid asking to reduce the eight-year ban, received a month earlier, slapped on him by the BPL anti-corruption tribunal for his involvement in match and spot-fixing in the BPL 2013.
ESPNcricinfo reports: The five-year ban is dated from 13 August, 2013. The last two years are suspended subject to his participation in a BCB or ICC anti-corruption education and training programme. “Upon production of a certificate of good conduct from ICC”, a BCB release said, he will be eligible to return to cricket “on or about 13 August, 2016”.
Source: Prothom Alo
