Shakib Al Hasan has banned for two years (one year suspended) by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday after he admitted the alleged corruption approaches made to him. The ICC made his WhatsApp chat with alleged bookie Deepak Aggarwal public as well.
As per the seven-page report, Shakib Al Hasan confirmed to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit that “On 19 January 2018, he received a WhatsApp message from Mr Aggarwal congratulating him for being named man of the match in that day’s game. Mr Aggarwal followed this message with a message saying ‘do we work in this or I wait til the IPL’.”
“The reference to ‘work’ in this message was a reference to him providing Inside Information to Mr Aggarwal. He did not report this contact from Mr Aggarwal to the ACU or any other anti-corruption authority,” the report said further.
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The chat had happened during Bangladesh’s tri-series with Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in January 2018 as well. On January 23, the bookie made another approach to Shakib, asking for another inside information: “Bro anything in this series?” The report also revealed that Shakib Al Hasan was approached by the same bookie during the IPL match between SunRisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab in 2018.
“He received a WhatsApp message from Mr Aggarwal that day asking him whether a particular player was going to be playing in the game that day,” the ICC said in the report.
As far as Bangladesh’s upcoming series is concerned, they will face India in three T20Is, starting on November 3, before travelling to Indore to kick off their ICC World Test Championship campaign from November 14.
