Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been banned for ten years by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for his involvement in spot-fixing in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in 2016-17. An independent anti-corruption tribunal found him guilty on five breaches of the PCB’s anti-corruption code. The three-man tribunal made its ruling on Friday and besides suspending Jamshed from playing any level of cricket, he cannot hold any management roles in Pakistan cricket for life as per the codes governing the cricketing body.
“There are some cases which don’t make you happy despite you winning it. This is one such. Because a player has destroyed his career due to spot-fixing and failure to report approaches,” PCB’s lawyer Taffazul Rizvi told the reporters outside the PCB headquarters in Lahore.
This is the second time that Jamshed has been suspended in the last two years. In December 2017, Jamshed was banned for a year by PCB when an anti-corruption tribunal had found him guilty of non-cooperation in the 2017 PSL spot-fixing case.
His one-year ban ended this year in April. He was later slapped with the seven violations of the PCB’s anti-corruption code. Over a period of time, Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Irfan, Shahzaib Hasan and Mohammad Nawaz have also been handed out bans of varying lengths for their involvement.
