Sanath Jayasundara, a former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst, has been banned from the sport for seven years after violating the anti-corruption rule of the International Cricket Council.<\/p>\n
According to the ICC, \u201cJayasundara attempted to pay Sri Lanka\u2019s sports minister two years ago to inappropriately influence the result, progress, conduct, or any other aspect of an international match.\u201d The ban is retroactive to May 11, 2019, when Jayasundara was provisionally suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n Jayasundara was found guilty of two charges: Article 2.1.3\u2014offering bribes or other rewards to the country\u2019s sports minister in order to contrive in either way or otherwise improperly influence the result, progress, conduct, or any other aspect of an international match; and Article 2.4.7\u2014obstructing or delaying an ACU investigation into possible corrupt conduct under the anti-corruption code.<\/p>\n Jayasundara was also found guilty of hindering or delaying an inquiry into alleged corruption, according to the ICC.<\/p>\n \u201cJayasundara\u2019s attempt to bribe a minister is a grave transgression while the efforts to cover up his tracks and the lack of remorse are hugely disappointing, \u201cIn a statement, ICC integrity unit general manager Alex Marshall said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not tolerate corruption in our sport, and my staff will work tirelessly to avoid it. This prohibition should act as a deterrent to anyone who might be tempted to go down the wrong path,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sanath Jayasundara, a former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst, has been banned from the sport for seven years after violating\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[842,737],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-corruption","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}