ICC bans former Sri Lankan cricketer Nuwan Zoysa for six years for breaching Anti-Corruption Code


ICC bans former Sri Lankan cricketer Nuwan Zoysa for six years for breaching Anti-Corruption Code

Nuwan Zoysa

Former Sri Lankan cricketer and coach Nuwan Zoysa has been banned for a period of six years from all cricket-related activities by the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Ant-Corruption Tribunal. The pacer was found guilty of breaching the anti-corruption code. The ban is backdated to 2018 when in October he was provisionally suspended for failing to disclose details of corrupt approaches.

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Zoysa has been found guilty on two charges with the first one dealing with “being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of an International Match” and the second being “directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.”

ICC’s Integrity Unit GM releases statement on Nuwan Zoysa’s ban

Nuwan Zoysa
Nuwan Zoysa

The General Manager of ICC’s Integrity Unit, Alex Marshall released a statement saying, “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.”

Zoysa’s ban comes just over a week after fellow Sri Lankan Dilhara Lokuhettige was banned for eight years for being party to a corrupt agreement. Former Zimbabwean player and coach Heath Streak was also handed a similar eight-year ban after being found guilty of five charges with regard to the Anti-Corruption code.

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