Cricket bat and balls may be seen on a cricket discipline. — Reuters/File
Bangladesh girls’s participant Shohely Akhter has been banned from all cricket for 5 years after the spinner was discovered responsible of breaching the Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption code, the game’s governing physique mentioned on Tuesday.
The 36-year-old formally admitted to breaching 5 provisions of the code, regarding approaching a Bangladesh participant and providing a sum value two million takas ($16,465) for getting out hit wicket in a Girls’s T20 World Cup match in opposition to Australia in 2023.
Akhter, who has performed two one-day internationals and 13 T20 internationals, made the method in a collection of voice notes despatched on Fb and was reported to the anti-corruption unit by the participant she spoke to.
Bangladesh girls’s participant Shohely Akhter. — ICC
“The ICC has considered all of the circumstances of this case, including giving Ms Akhter credit for agreeing an outcome that avoids the need for a hearing and so saves considerable time and money for use elsewhere in the fight against corruption…,” the ICC mentioned.
“The ICC therefore considers that a period of ineligibility of five years is reasonable and proportionate. Ms Akhter has agreed to this sanction.”
Akhter final performed for Bangladesh in 2022 and was not a part of the squad for the 2023 T20 World Cup held in South Africa.
