DUBAI – The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced Monday it hadcharged three Hong Kong players, including one who has already served a30-month ban, with 19 counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code inmatches played between 2014 and 2016.
Irfan Ahmed, who was banned from all cricket for two-and-a-half years inApril 2016 after admitting breaches of the code, will face nine charges,while Irfan´s older brother Nadeem Ahmed and Haseeb Amjad each face fivecharges, the ICC said.
The players have been provisionally suspended with immediate effect.
Irfan ended his previous ban only in May this year, having been foundguilty of failing to report requests to fix matches between January 2012and January 2014.
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Hong Kong is one of 92 associate, or non-Test playing, ICC members, makingit a second-tier team and a minnow on the international stage. – APP/AFP
