Ashraful Ban Reduce To 5 Years

Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful has 

had his eight-year ban for involvement in corruption reduced 

to a five-year penalty, with two years suspended, by the 

BCB's disciplinary panel chairman. Ashraful had appealed to 

the disciplinary panel chief, Justice Mohammad Abdur 

Rashid, in July, asking that the ban he received a month 

earlier, for his involvement in match and spot-fixing in the 

2013 edition of the Bangladesh Premier League, be reduced.

The five-year ban is dated from August 13, 2013. The last 

two years are suspended subject to his participation in a 

BCB or ICC anti-corruption education and training

programme. 

"Upon production of a certificate of good conduct from ICC", 

a BCB release said, he will be eligible to return to cricket "on 

or about August 13, 2016".