Pakistan opener Nasir Jamshed has received a ban of a decade by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Anti Corruption Tribunal for his involvement in the spot-fixing row that rocked the PSL during the 2016-17 season, the PCB confirmed on Friday (August 17).
Apart from banning the cricketer for 10 long years from playing any form of cricket, the three-member panel has also disqualified him from taking up any management positions with regard to Pakistan cricket for life. The PCB had termed Jamshed as the crucial member in the scandal as he recruited the players on behalf of bookies for spot-fixing.
Talking to the reporter, PCB’s lawyer Taffazul Rizvi said, “There are some cases which don’t make you happy despite you winning it. This is one such. Because a player has destroyed his career due to spot-fixing and failure to report approaches.”
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In February 2017, the southpaw was arrested in the UK by the National Crime Agency for corruption in the PSL’s second season, but he is currently on bail. He will have to go through extensive rehabilitation after his ban concludes. Earlier in December, Jamshed was suspended for one year by the PCB after an anti corruption tribunal noted he was guilty of “non-cooperation” in relation to the spot-fixing case. The ban meant that Jamshed couldn’t play cricket till February 13, 2018 – exactly one year on from the time when he was initially suspended.
After his suspension ended, the board again found him guilty of seven violations of their anti-corruption code in April. Jamshed had replied by rejecting the charges against him. As a result, the PCB drafted a statement, noting that the chairman Najam Sethi had taken up the matter for resolution to a three-member panel, which contained Justice (Retd.) Fazl-e-Miran Chauhan, Shahzaib Masood, senior advocate in the Supreme Court and former Pakistan pacer Aaqib Javed.
Over a period of time, Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Irfan, Shahzaib Hasan and Mohammad Nawaz have also been handed out bans of varying lengths.
