ICC suspends THESE cricketers for breaching anti-corruption code

The players have 14 days from September 13 to respond to the charges. The ICC will not make any further comment in respect of these charges at this stage.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) players Amir Hayat and Ashfaq Ahmed have been charged with five counts of breaching cricket's anti-corruption rules and provisionally suspended with immediate effect. The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) had suspended Ashfaq during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier in October last year but no formal charges had been laid so far, the ICC said in a release. Amir and Ashfaq banned for eight years each under ICC Anti-Corruption Code https://t.co/GiVONQAEFq via @ICC