ICC bans Jayasuriya for not cooperating in corruption probe
Sri Lanka batting great Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned from all cricket for two years after breaching two counts of the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code, the world governing body said on Tuesday.
ICC said the former captain had refused to cooperate with any investigation conducted by its Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) under Article 2.4.6 of the anti-corruption code. It added in a statement that the 49-year-old had also been sanctioned for trying to conceal, destroy or tamper with evidence that could be crucial to anti-corruption investigation under Article 2.4.7 of the code. “This conviction under the code demonstrates the importance of participants in cricket cooperating with investigations,” ICC General Manager Alex Marshall said. “Compelling participants to cooperate under the code is a vital weapon in our efforts to rid our sport of corruptors,” he added. Jayasuriya played 110 Tests, scoring 6,973 runs with 14 hundreds before his retirement from Test cricket in 2007.
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