PCB
CAS reduces ban on Akmal
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced the ban on Pakistan cricketer Umar Akmal to 12 months and fined him 4.25 million rupees for violating the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s anti-corruption code.
That ban was reduced after Akmal appealed to an independent adjudicator, before both Akmal and the PCB took the matter to the CAS.
The 30-year-old Akmal is eligible to return into competitive cricket, however he has to pay the fine, and also has to go through the rehabilitation program under the cricket board’s anti-corruption code.
Akmal was suspended in February 2020 for failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him just before the start of the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League.
The PCB’s disciplinary panel last April found Akmal guilty on two charges and handed him a three-year suspension.
“The PCB once again urges and reminds all participants to abide by their duty and promptly report any approaches to the anti-corruption officers and help themselves as well as the anti-corruption unit's effort to eliminate the anathema of fixing,” the PCB said in the statement.
Akmal emerged on the international cricket with a hundred in his first Test in New Zealand in 2009. He has played 16 Tests, 121 one-day internationals, as well as 84 Twenty20 internationals.