The International Cricket Council (ICC), performing because the Designated Anti-Corruption Official beneath the ECB Code, pressed fees in opposition to Samuels in September 2021. The fees pertained to his alleged violation of the anti-corruption code on 4 events throughout a T10 league in 2019.
Opting to have a listening to earlier than the Tribunal, the 42-year-old cricketer has now been formally convicted of the said offences.
“The Tribunal will now consider the submissions of each party before deciding on the appropriate sanction to be imposed. The decision will follow in due course,” ICC stated in a launch.
Samuels performed 71 Tests, 207 ODIs and 67 T20Is in his worldwide profession, scoring 11,134 runs and taking 152 wickets. He retired from worldwide cricket in November 2020.
The former top-order batter has been discovered responsible of breaching articles 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.6 and a pair of.4.7 of the Code.
The three articles cope with failure to speak in confidence to the Anti-Corruption Official, receipt of any present, cost, hospitality or different profit that was made or given in circumstances that “could bring the participant or the sport of cricket into disrepute”, non-cooperation with the investigation, and obstructing or delaying the investigation by “concealing information that may have been relevant…”
Samuels was part of the occasion in 2019 when he turned up for Karnataka Tuskers, which was led by South African star Hashim Amla.
(With PTI inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com