Kabul: Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has banned domestic assistant coach Noor Mohammad Lalai from all formats of the game for five years on Monday (September 7) after he found trying to spot fix matches of Shpageeza Cricket League (SCL).
The decision comes in after Lalai allegedly spoke to a national player regarding spot-fixing in few matches of the SCL. He has accepted four charges related to the break-through of the ACB anti-corruption code.
“Noor Mohammad’s position assistant coach someone who represents or is affiliated to an Afghanistan domestic team affiliated to ACB namely Kapisa in 2019 two-day provincial tournament, constitutes a participant for the purposes of the code, furthermore, he is also a full-time coach with Hampalana private Cricket Academy,” ACB said in a release.
Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has banned assistant coach Noor Mohammad “Lalai” from all forms of cricket for a period of five years after he accepted four charges related to the breaching of the ACB Anti-Corruption Code.
— Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) September 7, 2020
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“The charges relate to the Shpageeza Cricket League (SCL 2019), a national team player X was approached by Noor Mohammad Lalai with the reference to ‘work’ being a request to assist with the spot-fixing in a few matches in the mentioned tournament,” it added.
Under the incident that took place, Noor selected to admit the charges imposed against him and accepted the penalties or punishments by ACB on behalf of an anti-corruption panel hearing.
Addressing the problem, ACB’s senior anti-corruption manager, Sayed Anwar Shah Quraishi stated, “This is a very disappointing and serious offense where a domestic level junior coach is involved in the corruption of a high-profile domestic game in SCL 2019. The coach, as an agent tried to get one of the national team players to engage in corruption of spot-fixing of few matches in SCL 2019. Luckily, he failed to do so as he was reported.”
“I would like to place on record my grateful appreciation and thanks to national player X who displayed true bravery and professionalism from the moment he reported this approach. He recognized it for what it was, rejected it and reported it. He then supported our investigation and subsequent tribunal,” Quraishi further added.
Noor was found guilty of the below four offenses under the code:
Breach of Article 2.1.1: “Fixing or contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a party to any agreement or effort to fix.”
Breach of Article 2.1.4: “Attempting to solicit, induce, entice, persuade, encourage or intentionally facilitate a Participant to breach Article 2.1.”
Breach of Article 2.3.3: “Directly soliciting, inducing, enticing or encouraging a participant to breach the code.”
Breach of Article 2.4.4: “Failing to disclose to the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (without unnecessary delay) full details of any approaches or invitations received by a Participant to engage in Corrupt Conduct under ACB Anti-Corruption Code.”
