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Asif Afridi became part of a team to deal with Australia in limited-over matches in 2015.© Twitter
Pakistan prohibited all-rounder Asif Afridi from all cricket for a duration of 2 years on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 2 offenses of the board’s anti-corruption code. “Afridi has actually been handed a two-year duration of ineligibility, while he was offered a six-month restriction for the offense of a 2nd stipulation,” the Pakistan Cricket Board stated in a declaration. Afridi was at first suspended in September in 2015 over stopping working to report a method “to take part in corrupt conduct” throughout the National Twenty20 competition.
While revealing the choice, the PCB stated it thought about Afridi’s demand to consider his case compassionately. He declared he had actually accidentally breached the code.
The 36-year-old became part of a team to deal with Australia in limited-over matches in 2015, however did not play in any of them.
Pakistan cricket has a history of match-fixing restrictions, with a judicial query prohibiting previous skipper Salim Malik and seamer Ata-ur-Rehman for life and fining 6 leading cricketers– consisting of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis– in 2000.
Salman Butt, who was then the group’s skipper, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were prohibited for 5 years in a spot-fixing case in England in 2010.
2 years later on, leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was prohibited for life over a spot-fixing case in English nation cricket.
In the more current past, Umar Akmal, Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Shahzaib Hasan, Mohammad Nawaz and Mohammad Irfan were likewise prohibited in different spot-fixing cases.
(This story has actually not been modified by NDTV personnel and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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