Pakistan’s Akmal has three-year cricket ban halved on appeal

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“Pakistan cricketer Umar Akmal (left) with his lawyer in Lahore. ©AFP” /> Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal’s three-year ban from cricket for failing to report a match-fixing approach was on Wednesday reduced to 18 months on appeal, meaning he can resume playing in August next year. Former Pakistan supreme court judge and independent adjudicator Faqir Mohammad Khokhar announced the appeal result, which had been reserved two weeks ago, after a short hearing in Lahore attended by Akmal and his lawyer. Akmal pleaded guilty in April to a…

Umar Akmal handed three-year ban from all cricket activities

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COURTESY BY: https://www.cricingif.com/ Umar Akmal has been handed a three-year ban from all cricket by Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Mr Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan. Umar was suspended on February 20 for two breaches of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code and has now been barred from all cricket activities for three years. Earlier this month, the middle-order batsman withdrew the option of challenging the PCB decision before the Anti-Corruption Tribunal. Umar’s case was thus transferred to the Disciplinary Panel, which finalised the sanctions imposed on him after a thorough review of the charges laid out…