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Lahore: A week after being sent back from the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) in Dubai, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday issued charge-sheets to the suspended duo of Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing during the tournament.<\/p>\n
According to a report by geo.tv, the players were given two weeks to reply to the charge-sheets, which were handed to them after separately recording their statements.<\/p>\n
Both cricketers, who were part of the Islamabad United franchise in the PSL, had recorded their audio statements at the PCB headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“Sharjeel Khan has been charged with violation of Code Articles 2.1.1; 2.1.2; 2.1.3; 2.4.4; and 2.4.5 and Khalid Latif has been charged with violation of Code Articles 2.1.1; 2.1.2; 2.1.3; 2.1.4; 2.4.4; and 2.4.5,” read a PCB statement.<\/p>\n
Sharjeel was found to be in violation of five major articles in the PCB’s anti-corruption code while Latif was also found to have breached six major articles under Clause 2, including specific ones to attempt to corrupt a game, as well as more general misdemeanours of failing to disclose suspect approaches.<\/p>\n
Latif has been additionally charged for soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating an attempt to corrupt outcome of the match.<\/p>\n
“PCB maintains zero tolerance toward corrupt practices it believes are cancer eating at the heart of the game,” the statement further read.<\/p>\n
“In the meanwhile investigations will continue by vigilance and security department with regard to any questionable activity by any player and player support personnel,” the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lahore: A week after being sent back from the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) in Dubai, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday issued charge-sheets to the suspended duo of Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing during the tournament.<\/p>\n
According to a report by geo.tv, the players were given two weeks to reply to the charge-sheets, which were handed to them after separately recording their statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4744,466,21465,2894,21324,2271,20924,21464],"class_list":["post-33477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news","tag-cricket-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-khalid-latif","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-super-league","tag-pcb","tag-psl","tag-sharjeel-khan"],"yoast_head":"\n