PCB tightens the ‘grip’ on Khalid Latif
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LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday pronounced it had seized bat grips given to Khalid Latif by a bookie that a Islamabad United opener was allegedly ostensible to use to prove he would attend in a spot-fix.
The 31-year-old batsman stands indicted of attempting to spot-fix, usurpation an offer by a bookie that he did not report, and luring other players into a conspiracy.
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His box is now being listened by a three-member judiciary convened to arbitrate on a liaison that emerged during a Pakistan Super League (PSL) in a UAE in Feb and March.
Fast-bowler Mohammad Irfan and spinner Mohammad Nawaz have already been criminialized for 6 months with 6 suspended, and one month with one suspended, respectively and fined after they confessed to unwell to news approaches by bookmakers.
Khalid and 3 other players — Sharjeel Khan, Shahzaib Hasan and Nasir Jamshed — are also provisionally dangling on several charges and face bans trimming from 5 years to life if found guilty.
“One [piece] of … justification is that we seized a bat grips that [a] bookie had given and they were seized from Khalid’s pack bag,” PCB counsel Taffazul Rizvi told reporters.
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Spot-fixing involves attempting to establish a outcome of a specific partial of a compare rather than a altogether result, and is therefore harder to detect than match-fixing.
Khalid did not underline in Islamabad United’s opening diversion of a league, opposite Peshawar Zalmi in Dubai on Feb 9 though is pronounced to have upheld on a hold to Sharjeel Khan.
Sharjeel is purported to have played dual dot balls — balls from that a batsman does not measure — according to a pre-determined plan.
Rizvi combined that Khalid had met a bookie twice though unsuccessful to news a meeting.
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On Thursday a conduct of International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Safety Unit Sir Ronnie Flanagan told a judiciary that Britain’s National Crime Agency had supposing a initial spill about regulating attempts in a PSL.
Khalid’s counsel Badar Alam duration contested a neutrality of a judiciary on a drift that one of the members was a former PCB chairman.
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