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Bangladesh lifts Ashraful ban from domestic cricket
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s cricket authorities on Saturday partially lifted the ban on former captain Mohammad Ashraful, allowing him to play in selected domestic competitions,
Published on: Aug 14, 2016, 11:00:52 IST
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DHAKA: Bangladesh’s cricket authorities on Saturday partially lifted the ban on former captain Mohammad Ashraful, allowing him to play in selected domestic competitions, officials said.
Ashraful was initially banned for eight years in 2014 after he tearfully confessed on national television to helping fix matches in the scandal-hit Bangladesh Premier League.
The Twenty-20 tournament was eventually left suspended in the wake of the match-fixing controversy before resuming in 2015 with six new franchises.
A local appeal panel in September 2014 cut Ashraful’s ban to five years including a two-year suspended sentence, meaning he can return to competitive cricket from August 2016.
