{"id":64621,"date":"2018-05-10T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64621"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:37:32","slug":"irfan-ansari-charged-by-icc-for-breaching-anti-corruption-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64621","title":{"rendered":"Irfan Ansari charged by ICC for breaching anti-corruption code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi, May 10 (TNS): <\/strong>International Cricket Council have charged bookie Irfan Ansari for breaching ICC\u2019s anti-corruption code, the cricket governing body informed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari is a cricket organiser and also an employee of the Sharjah Cricket stadium and is affiliated to a team that participates in international matches, has been charged with the breaching of three codes of their anti-corruption unit.<\/p>\n<p>The bookie was reported to the Cricket governing body (ICC) by the Pakistan Cricket Board when he approached Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed in October 2017, during a series against Sri Lanka, and tried to provoke the skipper of spot-fixing.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sarfraz immediately reported to the PCB security officials and team management who then reported to the National cricket governing body, who later informed the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>The three codes breached by Ansari are pertaining to, directly inducing, soliciting and encouraging a player of the fixing act and also the inability of cooperating with ACU investigation process.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect and has 14 days from May 19 to respond to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, May 10 (TNS): International Cricket Council have charged bookie Irfan Ansari for breaching ICC\u2019s anti-corruption code, the cricket governing body informed on Thursday. Ansari is a cricket organiser and also an employee of the Sharjah Cricket stadium and is affiliated to a team that participates in international matches, has been charged with the breaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64623,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64621\/revisions\/64623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}