ICC suspends three Hong Kong players for violating anti-corruption rules

The ICC issued a statement issued a statement on Monday saying that there were 19 charges against three players and that they have been provisionally suspended pending an investigation

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has accused three Hong Kong players Irfan Ahmad, 28, Nadeem Ahmed, 31, and Hasib Amjad, 30 for violating anti-corruption rules. The ICC issued a statement issued a statement on Monday saying that there were 19 charges against three players and that they have been provisionally suspended pending an investigation.

Irfan faces nine charges, while Nadeem and Hasib face five charges each.

 

“The players have 14 days from 8 October 2018 to respond to the charges. The ICC will not make any further comment in respect of these charges at this stage,” the ICC said on its website.

Irfan, having been proven guilty of failing to report requests to fix matches many times between January 2012 and January 2014, completed a suspension on May 4, 2018. However, it is believed that he did not act on any of the approaches.

Charges against Irfan: Hong Kong’s ICC World Cup qualifying match against Scotland on January 13, 2014; World Cup qualifier, Hong Kong versus Canada on January 17, 2014; T20 Hong Kong versus Zimbabwe on March 12, 2014; the World T20 qualifiers in 2015 and the World T20 finals in 2016.

Charges against Nadeem: Hong Kong versus Scotland, Hong Kong versus Canada and the World T20 finals in 2016. Haseeb’s charges relate to Hong Kong versus Scotland and Hong Kong versus Canada.

The ICC has refused to say anything more on this matter.