|| CF Correspondent ||

The International Cricket Council on Friday charged  former Sri Lankan cricketers Nuwan Zoysa and Avishka Gunawardene for breaching the Emirates Cricket Board's Anti Corruption Code.

Zoysa was charged for breaching four counts of the ECB's Code, Gunawardene was found to have breached two that relates to the T10 league that was played in the UAE last year in December.

Zoysa's offences: Article 2.1.1 - for being party to an agreement to influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of a match. Article 2.1.4 - Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.

Article 2.4.4 - Failing to disclose to the ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code.

Article 2.4.6 - Failing or refusing, without compelling justification to cooperate with any investigation carried out by the ACU in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code

Gunawardene's offences:

Article 2.1.4 - Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.

Article 2.4.5 - Failing to disclose to the ACU (without unnecessary delay) full details of any incident, fact, or matter that comes to the attention of a Participant that may evidence Corrupt Conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code by another Participant.

The former cricketers have been given two weeks to respond to the charges and are provisionally suspended. This is also Zoysa's second suspension in the last six months. He was charged with three counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code last year in November. The 40-year-old has played 30 Tests and 95 ODIs for Sri Lanka whereas Gunawardene represented the island nation in six Tests and 61 ODIs.