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 ICC upholds 2 yr ban on Samuels
3rd Jul 2008 22:00 IST
Agencies
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today upheld the two-year ban on West Indian batsman Marlon Samuels for bringing the game into disrepute.
After its two-day meeting in Dubai, the ICC Executive Board said the two-year ban slapped on the batsman by a West Indies Cricket Board Disciplinary Committee was "appropriate".
The committee found Samuels guilty of offence C 4 (ix) of the ICC Code of Conduct, namely that he "received any money, benefit or other reward (whether financial or otherwise) which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute."
"An official enquiry made up of Michael Beloff, the Chairman of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, and two other ICC Code of Conduct Commissioners, has reviewed the WICB Disciplinary Committee finding to ascertain whether the disciplinary process and the punishment imposed were in keeping with the ICC regulations.
"The official enquiry found both the process and the punishment to be appropriate and those findings were accepted by the ICC Board," the governing body said.
The ICC also formally announced that the controversial Oval Test, which Pakistan forfeited amid extraordinary circumstances, would go down in the record book not as a match England won but as a drawn tie. |
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