Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan was banned for two years by ICC on October 29 for breaching three ICC anti-corruption codes with relation to reporting approaches from bookies. After he admitted his mistake of not reporting the meetings from bookies three times, one year of the ban was suspended.
As per a release from ICC, under the provisions of the Code, Mr. Al Hasan chose to admit the charges and agreed to the sanction with the ICC in lieu of an Anti-Corruption Tribunal hearing. Subject to him satisfying the conditions in respect of the suspended part of the sanction, he will be free to resume international cricket on 29 October 2020.
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He said, “I am obviously extremely sad to have been banned from the game I love, but I completely accept my sanction for not reporting the approaches. The ICC ACU is reliant on players to play a central part in the fight against corruption and I didn’t do my duty in this instance.”
Though he has received support from his board and even the Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has also come out and supported him. His family and wife are also backing the leading all-rounder to come back stronger. He will miss the World T20 2020 in Australia given his timing of ban.
The cricket fraternity, on the other hand, was not so supportive of the all-rounder and slammed him for being so careless despite his experience. Many of the former cricketers and experts took to Twitter and took digs at the now-former Bangladesh captain.
Here are the tweets:
