LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday hit former opener Shahzaib Hasan with a one-year ban and a million rupee ($9,050) fine for a spot-fixing incident that rocked the country’s prime Twenty20 league last year.
Shahzaib, 28, was a member of Pakistan’s World Twenty20 winning team in 2009 but had not played any international cricket in the past eight years.
Shahzaib, who was playing for the Karachi Kings, was one of six players charged with various breaches of PCB’s anti-corruption code during the second edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) held in the UAE.
“Shahzaib has been banned for one year and fined one million rupees on one charge and we have requested for more action against him on inducing other players for fixing,” PCB’s legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi told the media.
Right-handed Shahzaib, an aggressive opener, played three ODIs and 10 T20 Internationals for Pakistan before losing his place due to poor performance in 2010.
The PSL was rocked by scandal in February last year when it was announced that several players were caught in a spot-fixing incident.
The PCB formed a three-man tribunal which later banned opener Sharjeel Khan for five years (two and a half suspended) while Khalid Latif was banned for five full years and fined one million rupees.
Paceman Mohammad Irfan was banned for one year (six months suspended), spinner Mohammad Nawaz for two months (one suspended) and opener Nasir Jamshed for one year.
Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2018
