Pakistan Cricket Board bans opener Khalid Latif for five years over PSL spot-fixing

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has imposed a five-year ban and a fine of one million rupees on batsman Khalid Latif for his involvement in spot-fixing during the PSL. In a short order released on Wednesday, the three-member Tribunal of PCB headed by a former High Court judge Asghar Haider found Khalid guilty on all six breaches of the Cricket Board’s anti-corruption code.

It said all the penalties imposed on Khalid will run concurrently with the maximum being five years and a fine of one million rupees to be recovered by the PCB. Khalid’s lawyer Badr Alam, however, outrightly rejected the verdict and said the tribunal was not authorised to take such a decision. “We don’t accept this decision and we have already filed a challenge in the Supreme Court against the tribunal,” he said.

The same tribunal had last month imposed a five-year ban on another Pakistani batsman Sharjeel Khan for similar offences in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) played in February in Dubai. But while the tribunal has kept half of Sharjeel’s five- year ban suspended, it didn’t show any leniency on Khalid. Khalid and his lawyer were involved in a continuous run- in with the tribunal since the start of …read more