The ICC has banned Rizwan Javed, a UK-based club cricketer, for 17-and-a-half years – the second-longest sentence handed out by the ICC to this point – after he was discovered responsible of 5 completely different breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) anti-corruption code.
Javed was amongst eight gamers and officers initially charged by the ICC in September 2023 over allegations of corruption on the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 league. The magnitude of the ban is barely behind the 20-year ban given to Zimbabwe cricket official Rajan Nayar in 2018.
Javed, as laid out by the ICC in a authorized doc, participated in matches for Cheadle Hulme Cricket Club within the Cheshire Cricket League till August 24, 2019, however on this case was underneath the scanner for his makes an attempt to deprave gamers within the T10 league, specifically throughout the Pune Devils franchise throughout the 2020-21 season.
Final yr, the ICC had stated it had “disrupted” makes an attempt to deprave video games, and charged eight folks – together with Bangladesh worldwide Nasir Hossain – accordingly. Whereas the ICC stated that Nasir had co-operated with investigation and had obtained a two-year ban, in Javed’s case, the ICC stated he didn’t reply to the costs or supply co-operation.
Javed was discovered responsible of:
Article 2.1.1 – Being social gathering to an try to repair, contrive or affect improperly matches or points of matches within the Abu Dhabi T10 2021 (on three separate events).
Article 2.1.3 – Providing a Reward to a different Participant in trade for that participant partaking in Corrupt Conduct.
Article 2.1.4 – Instantly or not directly soliciting, inducing, engaging, instructing, persuading, encouraging or deliberately facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1 (on three separate events).
Article 2.4.4 – Failing to open up to the DACO full particulars of any approaches or invites obtained to interact in Corrupt Conduct underneath the Code.
Article 2.4.6 – Failing or refusing, with out compelling justification, to cooperate with any investigation carried out by the DACO in relation to attainable Corrupt Conduct underneath the Code.
“Rizwan Javed has obtained a prolonged ban from cricket for his repeated and severe makes an attempt to deprave skilled cricketers,” Alex Marshall, ICC normal supervisor – integrity, stated. “He has proven no regret and no respect for the principles which can be in place to guard our sport. The sanction imposed ought to ship a robust message to different corrupters making an attempt to focus on cricket at any stage and demonstrates that any try and corrupt cricket will probably be strongly handled.”
The ban is backdated to September 19, 2023, the date Javed was provisionally suspended on. The choice was handed out by Michael J Beloff KC, chair of the ICC code of conduct committee.
