'BCCI has no role in Shakib investigation'
Bangladesh premier all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was handed a two-year ban, with one of them suspended, by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday after the 32-year old had accepted three charges of him breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
Shakib had failed to report corrupt approaches on three occasions and one of them was during an Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2018.
But the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)'s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) head Ajit Singh has said that the Board had no role to play in the investigations and that they were entirely conducted by the ICC.
"That particular IPL season we are referring to, the anti-corruption matters were handled by the ICC. So the complete investigation was carried out by the ICC. The BCCI has no role in it. We provided the necessary inputs from our end but the entire investigation was carried out by the ICC ACU." Singh told PTI.
The match referred in ICC's verdict was played between Shakib's Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab on April 26, 2018 which Sunrisers won by 13 runs.
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