Ashar zaidi

Abu Dhabi T10 Cricket League: Pune Devils batting coach Ashar Zaidi, as well as team co-owners Parag Sanghavi and Krishan Kumar Choudhary, have been handed bans after admitting to various breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) Anti-Corruption Code for Participants of the T10 League by indulging in corrupt activities.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement that Zaidi has been banned from all cricket for five years while Sanghavi and Choudhary have both been banned for two years after they each admitted two offences under the Code.

The charges against the trio all relate to the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 Cricket League. In each case, the last 12 months of each period of ineligibility is suspended. The bans on the trio are backdated to September 19, 2023, the date they all were provisionally suspended.