DUBAI: United Arab Emirates (UAE) cricket star Qadeer Ahmed Khan has been banned from all cricket for five years after admitting six counts of corruption back in 2019, the ICC said Wednesday.

Right-arm pace bowler Qadeer was charged with corruption by the International Cricket Council along with captain Mohammed Naveed and batsman Shaiman Anwar in October 2019.

A fourth individual, Mehardeep Chhayakar, was charged for refusing to cooperate with the ICC.

Qadeer was charged with breaches of the ICC’s code relating principally to the series against Zimbabwe in April 2019 and the Netherlands in August the same year.

The charges also related to passing insider information to Chhayakar in the knowledge that ‘the information might be used for betting purposes’.

Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2021

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