The former Sri Lankan cricketer and the present national team’s bowling coach Nuwan Zoysa is the latest Sri Lankan to be charged by the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

On Wednesday (October 31), the 40-year-old has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect after he has been charged for breaching three code-of-conducts of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

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Here are the charges against Zoysa:

• Article 2.1.1 – being party to an effort to fix or contrive or to otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect of an International match.
• Article 2.1.4 – directly soliciting, inducing, enticing or encouraging a player to breach Code Article 2.1.1.
• Article 2.4.4 – failing to disclose to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit full details of any approaches or invitations he received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code.

However, it hasn’t specified yet the actual reason for this action. Zoysa has a 14-day time, starting from 1 November 2018, to respond on these charges.

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Zoysa was a left-arm pacer, who played the international cricket for Sri Lanka between 1997 and 2007. He played 30 Tests and 95 ODIs where he picked up a total of 172 wickets in the international career (64 wickets in Tests and 108 wickets in ODIs).

Zoysa was the first Sri Lankan bowler to claim a hat-trick in international cricket. In November 1999, the Sri Lankan left-arm pacer claimed a Test hat-trick against Zimbabwe at Harare after dismissing Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson in three successive deliveries.

Recently, the legendary Sri Lankan all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya has been charged for violating ICC’s anti-corruption code after not co-operating in the investigations. He has been charged with two counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code and those are:

• Article 2.4.6 – Failure or refusal, without compelling justification, to cooperate with any investigation carried out by the ACU, including failure to provide accurate and complete any information and/or documentation requested by the ACU as part of such investigation.
• Article 2.4.7 – Obstructing or delaying any investigation that may be carried out by the ACU, including concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code.

Later, the former Sri Lankan captain Jayasuriya released a statement that claimed, “The charges allege that I have not been cooperative and not assisted their investigations. I have always conducted myself with integrity and transparency with matters concerning the sport and I will continue to do so.”