CAS imposes 12-month ban and a fine of PKR 4.25million on Umar Akmal.

LAHORE -- The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has announced its decision on the Appeals filed by Pakistan Cricket Board and Umar Akmal against the Order of the Independent Adjudicator and CAS through a consolidated Order on both Appeals imposed on Umar Akmal a sanction of a 12-month ban and a fine of PKR4.25million on one count of breaching Article 2.4.4 of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code

Umar Akmal, who was suspended on 20 February 2020, will now be eligible to reintegrate into competitive cricket subject to deposits of fine of PKR4,250,000 and undergoing the program of rehabilitation under the PCB Anti-Corruption Code, said a spokesman of the PCB here on Friday.

'CAS has also refused the request of Umar Akmal seeking return of his two mobile phones, which are in PCB's custody for some different investigation and held that under the PCB Anti-Corruption Code it has the power to do so.

'On 27 April 2020, the Chairman Disciplinary Panel had found Umar Akmal guilty on two charges of separate breaches of Article 2.4.4 of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code in two unrelated incidents and...