Rizwan Javed slapped with 17 ½ years ban for breaching ICC Code of Conduct

The International Cricket Council (ICC), on Thursday (February 15), imposed a lengthy ban on UK-based club cricketer Rizwan Javed for corruption. He has been banned from all cricket for 17 and a half years by the apex body of the game.

Rizwan Javed is one of the eight players and officials who have been charged by the governing body of the game on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB). The charges were first imposed by the ECB in September last year. Of those eight charged, one is former Bangladesh allrounder Nasir Hossain who is currently serving a two-year ban.

Talking about Rizwan Javed, he was found guilty of five breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) Anti-Corruption Code for Participants, related to the 2021 Abu Dhabi T10 Cricket League. All eight persons were associated with the now-defunct Pune Devils franchise. The franchise has not participated in the league since 2021.

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Apart from Nassir and Rizwan, the other persons who were charged by the ICC are two co-owners of the franchise – Krishan Kumar Chaudhary and Parag Sanghvi, local player Saliya Salman, batting coach Ashar Zaidi, manager Shadab Ahamed and assistant coach Sunny Dhillon.

While Rizwan had the right to a hearing, he decided against responding to the charges. As a result, the ICC deemed him guilty of the offenses.

Rizwan Javed was found guilty of the following offenses:

Article 2.1.1 – Being party to an attempt to fix, contrive or influence improperly matches or aspects of matches in the Abu Dhabi T10 2021 (on three separate occasions).

Article 2.1.3 – Offering a Reward to another Participant in exchange for that player engaging in Corrupt Conduct.

Article 2.1.4 – Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1 (on three separate occasions).

Article 2.4.4 – Failing to disclose to the DACO 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 DACO in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code.

“Rizwan Javed has received a lengthy ban from cricket for his repeated and serious attempts to corrupt professional cricketers,” ICC General Manager Integrity, Alex Marshall said.

“The sanction imposed should send a strong message to other corrupters trying to target cricket at any level and demonstrates that any attempt to corrupt cricket will be strongly dealt with,” he added.