Pakistan’s Jamshed charged over temptation offences

LONDON: Banned former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been charged in Britain with temptation offences as partial of an review into spot-fixing in cricket, a National Crime Agency pronounced on Thursday.

Jamshed and dual British nationals — Yousaf Anwar and Mohammed Ijaz — were served with created summonses, charging them any with dual depends of bribery, pronounced a orator for a NCA.

The 3 group were arrested in Feb 2017 as partial of an review that associated to tournaments organized by inhabitant cricket play from Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The 3 group will seem during Manchester magistrates’ justice on Jan 15 any charged with temptation and swindling to dedicate bribery.

An NCA orator pronounced all of a purported offences associated to tournaments that took place overseas, including a Pakistan Super League in 2017.

Jamshed was not in a inhabitant group during a time of a purported offences, a orator said.

Spot-fixing refers to bootleg activity in a competition where a specific partial of a diversion is fixed, distinct match-fixing, where a whole outcome is fixed.

Jamshed played dual Tests, 48 one-day internationals and 18 T20s for Pakistan until 2015.

In October, a Pakistan cricket judiciary inspected a 10-year anathema on a former opening batsman over his purpose in several regulating scandals that strike a Pakistan Super League.

Three Pakistan players were concerned in a spot-fixing liaison during a 2010 Test in England.

An English justice subsequently condemned Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt to jail terms, with a players also given five-year worldwide bans from cricket.

Mohammad Amir has given returned to a Pakistan group and is in a patrol now on debate in South Africa. —AFP

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