He looks certain to be named in Australia's squad for the World Cup in West Indies and the United States
Ashraful’s ban reduced to five years
Mohammad Ashraful’s eight-year penalty for match fixing in the BPL has been reduced to five years.
Published : 29 Sept 2014, 03:24 PM
Updated : 29 Sept 2014, 04:31 PM
The punishment is effective from Aug 13, 2013.
The reduced sanction includes last two years of leniency subject to his “participation in the anti-corruption education and training programme to be organized by the BCB and/or the ICC”.
“Upon production of a certificate of good conduct from ICC”, the Bangladesh Cricket Board in a media statement said, “he would be eligible to return to cricket ‘on or about 13 August, 2016”.
The head of the ICC disciplinary panel, Abdur Rashid, announced the decision on Monday following Ashraful’s appeal for shortening the ban.
However, the fine of Tk 1 million imposed on the 30-year-old was upheld.
The former Bangladesh captain had been slapped with an eight-year ban by the Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for match fixing in the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier League.
In other decisions by the disciplinary panel chief, Sri Lanka all-rounder Kaushal Lokuarachchi's 18-month ban for failing to report an approach was reduced to one year.
The 10-year ban on Dhaka Gladiators managing director Shihab Chowdhury was upheld but his fine of Tk 2 million was withdrawn.
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