Sri Lanka’s former Test cricketer and Bowling Coach Nuwan Zoysa was banned for six years on Wednesday by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for match-fixing during a T10 tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
The ban on the 42-year-old is backdated to October 2018 when he was suspended pending an investigation into his conduct at the inaugural Sharjah tournament in 2017.
“Contriving to fix a game betrays the basis of sporting principles,” the ICC’s anti-corruption chief Alex Marshall said. “It will not be tolerated in our sport.
“In his role as a national coach, he should have acted as a role model. Instead, he became involved with a corrupter and attempted to corrupt others.”
There was no immediate comment from Zoysa, but he had expressed shock when the ICC initially announced in November that he had been found guilty.
“It is a fallacious and cheap gimmick by the ICC to perform such an act (of announcing guilt) intentionally to tarnish my reputation and the reputation of my beloved country,” Zoysa told reporters in Colombo at the time.
Source- BBC
