Oman Player Yousef Abdulrahim Al Balushi Suspended For Breaching ICC Anti-Corruption Code

Oman’s Yousef Al Balushi has been suspended with immediate effect after being charged with breaching four laws of the ICC’s anti-corruption code. The allegations regarding the 29-year-old came in the men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier, which was held in the United Arab Emirates in October and November 2019.

Al Balushi has 14 days from 23 January 2020 to respond to the charges. The ICC will not make any further comment in respect to these charges at this stage. For now, he has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement on Thursday.

Here are the four laws broke by Oman Player:

Breach of Article 2.1.1 – Being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of matches in the ICC World T20 Qualifiers 2019.

Breach of Article 2.1.4 – Attempting to solicit, induce, entice, persuade, encourage or intentionally facilitate a Participant to breach Article 2.1.

Breach of Article 2.4.4 – Failing to report the approaches or invitations that you received from three different individuals to be a party to an agreement or effort to fix matches in the ICC World T20 Qualifiers 2019.

Breach of Article 2.4.7 – Obstructing or delaying an investigation carried out by the ACU in relation to possible Corrupt Conduct under the Code, including by concealing or tampering with information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or lead to the discovery of evidence of Corrupt Conduct under the Code. 

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