ICC banned UAE cricketer Mehar Chhayakar for 14 year for attempted match-fixing

Mehar Chhayakar, a United Arab Emirates cricketer, has been banned for 14 years by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The ICC tribunal banned the cricketer from all forms of cricket in 2019 for violating the ICC and Cricket Canada codes. 

Mehar Chhayakar is a domestic cricketer from UAE who has played in the top league as a wicket-keeper batsman. He was found guilty of attempting to fix matches during the UAE vs Zimbabwe ODI series in 2019 and the Global T20 franchise tournament in Canada in the same



year. 

Mehar's companions confessed to the crime, but he denied the allegations. Former UAE players Qadir Khan and Ghulam Shabbir, who were Chhayakar's accomplices in this whole fixing case, accepted the ban imposed on themselves, but the main accused Mehar claimed to be innocent.

"Mehar Chhayakar has been banned from all cricket for 14 years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of seven breaches of the ICC and Cricket Canada Anti-Corruption Codes," the ICC said in a statement on Wednesday.