BOTH PLAYERS SUSPENDED AND FLOWN TO PAKISTAN FOR PROBE
slamabad United team players Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have been provisionally suspended from the Pakistan Super League (PSL) after both the players were accused of spot fixing.
Khan, 27, was a regular player in UAE’s domestic cricket scene and once won a KIA Picanto Car playing for Phoenix Medicines — and emerged as the man of the series in the 2013 Superstars Twenty20 tournament, organised by Dubai Cricket Council, before becoming a Pakistan national team player. Khan is one of the hardest hitting batsmen in the Pakistan team. He has played in one Test match, 25 One Day internationals and 15 Twenty20 International matches.
Thirty-one-year-old Latif is an opener who has played in five One Day Internationals and 13 Twenty20 International matches.
Both the players have been sent back to Pakistan.
The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed that the duo had been suspended under the Anti-Corruption Code as part of an ongoing probe into an international syndicate suspected of trying to ‘corrupt’ PSL.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan said: “I must remind all players of their responsibilities in the fight against corruption. They must understand that if they even think they may have been the subject of a suspicious approach, it is their obligation under the PCB AntiCorruption Code to report it to an appropriate anti-corruption official as a matter of urgency. ”
According to sources, both players have confessed being approached by members of an international betting syndicate.