ACSU report arrives tonight
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will finally get their hands on the International Cricket Council's (ICC's) much anticipated anti-corruption report on suspected match fixing in the country as delegates from the ICC are scheduled to arrive in the country tonight with the report.
The delegation, which is expected to consist of four to five members, may also include ICC's CEO Dave Richardson and communication manager Sami-Ul-Hasan. “The ICC's delegates are coming tomorrow night (Monday). The number of delegates is yet to be confirmed; it may be four or five,” said BCB's acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury.
The ICC's delegates, along with the BCB, will then host a press conference tomorrow afternoon where they are expected to reveal the desired punishment for cricketer Mohammad Ashraful, who recently confessed to match-fixing, and also reveal the names of anyone else found to be involved in the same.
While it is still unsure whether anybody else apart from Ashraful is involved, a number of cricketers, former cricketers and officials of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) have been interrogated by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) on similar grounds. BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon had hinted at the possibility of other names cropping up in the report but none of Ashraful's stature.
The range of the punishment of those deemed guilty has been another point of speculation. The ICC's anti-corruption code has the scope to provide a lifetime ban on anyone who has been involved in corruption in cricket. With regards to Ashraful, however, there has been talk about the possibility of decreasing the intensity of the punishment for his apparent cooperation with the ICC's officials.
Speculations however will finally come to an end over the next two days. Ashraful is expected to know his fate before the scheduled press conference on Monday. “They have let me know that they are coming and they told me that they would talk to me on Monday and let me know the finer details,” Ashraful told The Daily Star.
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