Pakistan banned all-rounder Asif Afridi from all cricket for a interval of two years on Tuesday after he pleaded responsible to 2 violations of the board’s anti-corruption code. “Afridi has been handed a two-year period of ineligibility, while he was given a six-month ban for the violation of a second clause,” the Pakistan Cricket Board stated in an announcement. Afridi was initially suspended in September final yr over failing to report an strategy “to engage in corrupt conduct” through the National Twenty20 event.

While saying the choice, the PCB stated it thought of Afridi’s request to contemplate his case compassionately. He claimed he had unintentionally breached the code.

The 36-year-old was a part of a squad to face Australia in limited-over matches final yr, however didn’t play in any of them.

Pakistan cricket has a historical past of match-fixing bans, with a judicial inquiry banning former skipper Salim Malik and seamer Ata-ur-Rehman for all times and fining six prime cricketers — together with Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis — in 2000.

Salman Butt, who was then the group’s skipper, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have been banned for 5 years in a spot-fixing case in England in 2010.

Two years later, leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was banned for all times over a spot-fixing case in English nation cricket.

In the newer previous, Umar Akmal, Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Shahzaib Hasan, Mohammad Nawaz and Mohammad Irfan have been additionally banned in varied spot-fixing circumstances.

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