P17 2 Layout 1 9/29/14 10:46 PM Page 1
p17 2_Layout 1 9/29/14 10:46 PM Page 1 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 SPORTS B’desh reduces Photo of the day ban on Ashraful DHAKA: Former Bangladesh cricket cap- six months,allowing him to play cricket tain Mohammad Ashraful received a life- from August this year. Earlier he was line yesterday after a special appeal pan- banned for 18 months.. el reduced his lengthy ban by three years In a joint statement, the ICC and BCB allowing him to return to competitive said they would be “carefully reviewing” cricket as early as August 2016. the verdict and would “decide on their The 30-year-old cricketer was original- next steps, including whether or not to ly slapped with an eight-year ban from all appeal”. forms of cricket in June this year after he The authorities, however, hailed the was found guilty of match fixing by a tri- panel’s ruling to impose ten-year ban on bunal set up by the Bangladesh Cricket Salim Chowdhury, the owner of the Board (BCB). But an disciplinary appeal reigning BPL champions, Dhaka panel “set aside” the sanction and Gladiators, who had been reprieved by reduced the ban to five years including the tribunal. The 10-year ban imposed on two-year suspended sentence provided Chowdhury’s son and co-owner of the the star batsman participates in the “anti- Gladiators Shihab Jishan Chowdhury, was corruption education and training pro- upheld. The scam came to light in May gramme to be organised by the BCB and last year when Ashraful, the one-time the ICC (International Cricket Council).” prodigy, tearfully admitted having Ashraful would now “be entitled to return helped fix matches in the tournament, to cricket on or about 13 August 2016 which has been tainted by scandal since upon production of a certificate of good its inception.
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