||Desk Report||

Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige has been charged with three counts of breaching the Emirates Cricket Board’s (ECB’s) Anti-Corruption Code. The charges relate to the T10 Cricket League played in December last year.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) charged Lokuhettige on behalf of the ECB, making him the third former Sri Lanka international to be charged on grounds of corruption over last one motnh.

Former Sri Lanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was charged by the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) over his failure to cooperate in their investigation, on October 15. Another former Sri Lanka cricketer Nuwan Zoysa was charged with three counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code later in the same month.

Lokuhettige has been suspended with immediate effect and has 14 days to respond to the charges.

The ICC was appointed by the ECB as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official for the purposes of the ECB’s Code and the charges are as follows:

⦁ Article 2.1.1 – being party to an effort to fix or contrive or to otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct, or other aspect(s) of a Domestic Match

⦁ Article 2.1.4 – directly soliciting, inducing, enticing or encouraging a player to breach Code Article 2.1.1