World cricket's governing body on Monday banned former Sri Lanka fast bowler Dilhara Lokuhettige for eight years for corruption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 40-year-old, who played nine one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals for Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2013, joins a growing list of Sri Lankan players to have been punished by the International Cricket Council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The ICC found Lokuhettige guilty on three counts in January after a two-year investigation and added that the ban had been toughened because he refused to cooperate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lokuhettige was accused of being a "party to an effort to fix" or "influence improperly" a game during a T10 tournament in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He was also found guilty of "directly soliciting and inducing a player" and failing to disclose approaches to take part in corruption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lokuhettige featured in an Al Jazeera documentary in 2018 when he spoke to an undercover reporter about fixing a game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The ICC said the ban had been backdated to April 2019, when the player was provisionally suspended.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
ICC anti-corruption chief Alex Marshall said: "The severity of the sanction reflects the seriousness of his offences and his continued refusal to cooperate and should serve as a deterrent for anyone considering getting involved in corruption of any kind."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In November, another Sri Lankan, Nuwan Zoysa, was found guilty of three counts of corruption relating to the same T10 tournament but is yet to be sanctioned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka has faced mounting scrutiny in recent years over cricket corruption.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The country's former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was banned from all cricket for two years in February 2019 after admitting two breaches of the anti-corruption code.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
A former sports minister, Harin Fernando, introduced tough anti-corruption laws in 2019 after saying that the ICC considered Sri Lanka the most corrupt cricketing nation.
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