Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige has been slapped with an 8-year ban from cricket. An ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal had found him guilty of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct. The ban on Lokuhettige is backdated to April 3, 2019 where he was provisionally suspended.
The tribunal had found him guilty of the following.
"Article 2.1.1 - for being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of a match.
Article 2.1.4 - Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.
Article 2.4.4 - Failing to disclose to the ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code.
The International Cricket Council has also charged Lokuhettige on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board. Lokuhettige had breached three counts of ECB’s anti-corruption code.
"Having represented Sri Lanka in international cricket, Dilhara had attended a number of anti-corruption education sessions and would have known his actions were a breach of the Code,” said Alex Marshall, ICC General Manage, (Integrity Unit).
Earlier, the 40-year-old cricketer was suspended by the ICC provisionally for breaching three charges of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
Dilhara Lokuhettige played 9 ODIs and two T20Is for Sri Lanka. He picked up 6 wickets in the One Day Internationals and had an economy of 4.74 while scalped a couple of wickets in the shorter format of the game.