Dhaka Gladiators managing director Shihab Chowdhury had appealed to the Bangladesh Cricket Board disciplinary panel chief against his 10-year ban in the Bangladesh Premier League match-fixing verdict, said the official on Monday. Shihab is the only accused convicted in the trial despite not pleading guilty, but the three-member Anti-Corruption Tribunal banned him for 10 years and fined Tk 20 lakh for his part in the scandal.
‘We have submitted a formal appeal to the disciplinary panel head,’ Salim Chowdhury told New Age.
The deadline for appealing to the BCB’s disciplinary panel chief, retried justice Mohammad Abdur Rashid, against the Tribunal verdict ends today.
Meanwhile, former national captain Mohammad Ashraful, who was banned for eight years and fined Tk 10 lakh, said he has instructed his British lawyer to submit his appeal before the deadline ends.
‘I talked to my lawyer Yasin Patel and he assured me that he will deliver it on time,’ Ashraful told New Age on Monday
‘I spoke to him again and again and he said that the draft is almost ready and would be submitted before the deadline,’ said Ashraful.
In June 2013, Ashraful confessed to being involved in the BPL match-fixing scandal and was immediately suspended by the BCB.
He was later charged along with nine other individuals by the ICC in August 2013. Lou Vincent was implicated in the case during the trial process.
The Tribunal, however, kept the door open for Ashraful for an early return provided he attends an anti-corruption education or rehabilitation programme, organised by the cricket regulators.
-With New Age input
