The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), appearing because the Designated Anti-Corruption Official beneath the ECB Code, pressed expenses in opposition to Samuels in September 2021. The costs 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 take into account the submissions of every occasion earlier than deciding on the suitable sanction to be imposed. The choice will comply with sooner or later,” ICC stated in a launch.
Samuels performed 71 Checks, 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 previous 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 open up to the Anti-Corruption Official, receipt of any reward, fee, hospitality or different profit that was made or given in circumstances that “might deliver the participant or the game of cricket into disrepute”, non-cooperation with the investigation, and obstructing or delaying the investigation by “concealing data which will have been related…”
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)
