Mehar Chhayakar, an Indian cricketer formerly based in the United Arab Emirates, has been banned from all cricket for 14 years for seven breaches of the sport’s anti-corruption code including attempted match-fixing, the ICC said on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old was found guilty by an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal of trying to influence aspects of the UAE’s one-day international series in Zimbabwe in 2019 as well as matches in the Global T20 franchise tournament in Canada n the same year.
We first encountered Mehar Chhayakar through his involvement in organizing a corrupt cricket tournament in Ajman, in 2018, the ICC said in a statement.
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The charges for which he has now received a lengthy ban are further examples of his efforts to corrupt and damage our sport.
We will be relentless in pursuing and disrupting the people who try to corrupt cricket. With a ban of 14 years, the Tribunal sent a clear message to anyone who has to intend like Chhayakar to spoil our game.
In response,Chhayakar said the charges against him were “false.”
The India born was also convicted of refusing to cooperate with, and obstructing the work of, the sport’s Anti-Corruption Unit. He was one of four players suspected by the ICC in 2019 after being charged with breaches of governing body’s anti-corruption code.
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