Dilhara Lokuhettige banned for eight years below ICC Anti-Corruption code

Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige was on Monday banned from all cricket for eight years after being discovered responsible of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
The ban for Lokuhettige, a right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower-order batsman, is backdated to April 3, 2019 when he was provisionally suspended.
“Having represented Sri Lanka in international cricket, Dilhara had attended a number of anti-corruption education sessions and would have known his actions were a breach of the Code,” Alex Marshall, ICC General Manager – Integrity Unit, mentioned in a launch.
“The severity of the sanction reflects the seriousness of his offences and his continued refusal to cooperate and should serve as a deterrent for anyone considering getting involved in corruption of any kind.”
The 40-year-old, who had retired in September 2016 after taking part in 9 ODIs and two T20 Internationals for his nation, was discovered responsible of three offences below the ICC Anti-Corruption Code in January this yr, following a listening to by an impartial tribunal.
He was charged below the ICC Anti-Corruption Code in November 2019 for his involvement in match-fixing throughout a T20 event in UAE in 2017, the place a Sri Lankan workforce participated.
The Tribunal discovered Lokuhettige responsible of:
Article 2.1.1 – for being social gathering to an settlement or effort to repair or contrive or in any other case affect improperly the outcome, progress, conduct or different side(s) of a match.
Article 2.1.4 – Directly or not directly soliciting, inducing, engaging, instructing, persuading, encouraging or deliberately facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.
Article 2.4.4 – Failing to speak in confidence to the ACU full particulars of any approaches or invites acquired to have interaction in corrupt conduct below the Code.
The Australia-based Lokuhettige has additionally been charged by the ICC on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) with breaching three counts of the ECB Anti-Corruption Code for Participants for the T10 League and these proceedings are ongoing.