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The fight against corruption in cricket claimed a number of notable scalps on Wednesday, with the former Sussex and Pakistan A bowler Naved Arif banned for life after pleading guilty to fixing in county cricket in 2011, and his ex-Sussex team-mate Lou Vincent one of four men punished for corrupt activity in last year’s Bangladesh Premier League – along with Mohammad Ashraful, the former Bangladesh captain. But there will almost certainly be more to follow in the coming weeks and months. The fight against corruption in cricket claimed a number of notable scalps on Wednesday, with the former Sussex and Pakistan A bowler Naved Arif banned for life after pleading guilty to fixing in county cricket in 2011, and his former Sussex team-mate Lou Vincent one of four men punished for corrupt activity in last year’s Bangladesh Premier League – along with Mohammad Ashraful, the former Bangladesh captain. But there will almost certainly be more to follow in the coming weeks and months.
Vincent, a former New Zealand international, was charged with Arif in May by the England and Wales Cricket Board, in his case with 14 offences relating to two Sussex fixtures in August 2011. Arif was charged with six offences in one of those two matches and has accepted his life ban, which has been imposed by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission but applies globally.Vincent, a former New Zealand international, was charged with Arif in May by the England and Wales Cricket Board, in his case with 14 offences relating to two Sussex fixtures in August 2011. Arif was charged with six offences in one of those two matches and has accepted his life ban, which has been imposed by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission but applies globally.
At this stage, Vincent has been banned for only three years, by a tribunal of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, which found him guilty of not reporting approaches to fix matches in the BPL Twenty20 competition in early 2013. But he remains under a provisional suspension by the ECB, and under investigation by the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit. At this stage, Vincent has been banned for only three years, by a tribunal of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, which found him guilty of not reporting approaches to fix matches in the BPL Twenty20 competition in early 2013. But he remains under a provisional suspension by the ECB and under investigation by the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.
In Asia, Ashraful is the highest-profile miscreant of the five, even if the confirmation of his punishment – an eight-year ban from all forms of cricket, at the end of which he will be 37 – comes as no surprise after he made a tearful confession in May 2013. He was once the boy wonder of Bangladesh, having become Test cricket’s youngest centurion when he made 114 on his debut against Sri Lanka in 2001. In Asia Ashraful is the highest-profile miscreant of the five, even if the confirmation of his punishment – an eight-year ban from all forms of cricket, at the end of which he will be 37 – comes as no surprise after he made a tearful confession in May 2013. He was once the boy wonder of Bangladesh, having become Test cricket’s youngest centurion when he made 114 on his debut against Sri Lanka in 2001.
He went on to make five more, plus three in one-day internationals including one that stunned Australia in Cardiff in 2005, and made the last of his 261 international appearances as recently as May 2013. But now he has been banned until 2021 and fined one million taka (£7,600). Kaushal Lokuarachchi, who was a member of Sri Lanka’s squad at the 2012 T20 World Cup and a Dhaka Gladiators team-mate of Ashraful’s in the IPL, has been banned for three years, and Shihab Jishan Chowdhury, who owned the Gladiators, has been banned for 10 years and fined two million taka (£15,000) for being party to an effort to fix a match. He went on to make five more, plus three in one-day internationals including one that stunned Australia in Cardiff in 2005, and made the last of his 261 international appearances as recently as May 2013. But now he has been banned until 2021 and fined one million taka (£7,600). Kaushal Lokuarachchi, who was a member of Sri Lanka’s squad at the 2012 T20 World Cup and a Dhaka Gladiators team-mate of Ashraful in the IPL, has been banned for three years, and Shihab Jishan Chowdhury, who owned the Gladiators, has been banned for 10 years and fined two million taka (£15,200) for being party to an effort to fix a match.
In addition to the ECB’s charges against Vincent, there are further unresolved issues surrounding his former New Zealand team-mates Chris Cairns and Daryl Tuffey, in addition to the Supreme Court investigation in India into allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League. Justice Mukul Mudgal has been appointed to lead that investigation, with his report due in August – when India will be playing a Test series in England. In addition to the ECB’s charges against Vincent, there are further unresolved issues surrounding his former New Zealand team-mates Chris Cairns and Daryl Tuffey, in addition to as well as the Supreme Court investigation in India into allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League. Justice Mukul Mudgal lead that investigation, with his report due in August – when India playing a Test series in England.
Cairns and Tuffey have both denied any involvement in match-fixing since the New Zealand Herald reported late last year that they were under investigation with Vincent, and Cairns recently flew to London to be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police as part of their investigation into Andrew Fitch-Holland, his barrister, on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in relation to Cairns’s libel trial with the former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. Cairns and Tuffey have both denied any involvement in match-fixing since the New Zealand Herald reported late last year that they were under investigation with Vincent, and Cairns interviewed by the Metropolitan Police as part of their investigation into Andrew Fitch-Holland, his barrister, on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in relation to Cairns’ libel trial with the former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi.