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Afghanistan wicket-keeper batsman Shafiqullah Shafiq has been banned fpr six years from all format of the games after he accepted four charges related to the breaching of the ACB Anti-Corruption Code, said a media release from the Afghanistan Cricket Board on Sunday.

An ACB release on Sunday mentioned that the charges against the 30-year-old also relate to his conduct during the Afghanistan Premier League in 2018.

In total, Shafiqullah had allegedly broken four articles of the ACB's anti-corruption code: trying to fix the outcome of a domestic match, seeking or offering bribes to fix the outcome of a domestic match, inducing a team-mate to fix a domestic match, and failing to report a corrupt approach.

Shafiqullah was part of the team that led Afghanistan to ODI status and a member of two World T20 campaigns. But he has not played an international game since September last year. A wicketkeeper-batsman by trade, he represented his country in 24 ODIs and 46 T20Is between 2009 and 2019.

"This is a very serious offense where a senior national player is involved in the corruption of a high-profile domestic game in APL T20 2018," said the ACB's senior anti-corruption manager, Sayed Anwar Shah Quraishi.

"The player had also attempted but failed to get one of his team-mates to engage in corruption in another high-profile game during the BPL 2019,’’ he said.