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| Tuesday, 13 May 2008 | |
 International Cricket
Council (ICC) acting chief executive officer, David Richardson, said Jamaican
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels's punishment for links with a bookmaker
should serve as a warning to other players and officials to beware of
corruption in cricket. Richardson added that corruption is a serious matter and dealing with it effectively is fundamental to the integrity of the sport and this matter is a demonstration that its threat has not gone away. Samuels, was found guilty on Monday of breaching the ICC's rules of conduct during the tour of India early last year. The ICC enforced a mandatory two year ban handed for violating the ICC code of conduct and takes effect from May 9. Following deliberations over the weekend the West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) disciplinary committee, had recommended to the ICC that Samuels be given a two year suspended sentence after finding him guilty of one of two charges against him, that of violating the ICC's code of conduct in which he "received money, benefit or other reward which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute". The ICC has however decided to enforce the two minimum year punishment. The WICB disicpilnary board had dismissed the second charge of passing on vital team information to bookie Mukesh Kochar. Samuels was in contact with Kochar on the eve of the first one-day international between the West Indies and India in Nagpur on January 21, 2007. |