BREAKING: ICC Bans Brendon Taylor From All Forms Of Cricket For Three And A Half Years

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Former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor has been banned from all three forms of cricket for three and a half years by the ICC for four offences. 
Brendan Taylor just a few days ago revealed that he had not immediately reported a corrupt approach by an Indian businessman and that he was blackmailed after consuming drugs during that meeting.

"Brendan Taylor has been handed a three-and-a-half year ban from all forms of cricket after he accepted four charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code and one separate charge of breaching the Anti-Doping Code," the ICC announced in a release on Friday.

"He accepted the sanctions after admitting to various breaches of the Anti-Corruption Code while a separate charge of breaching the Anti-Doping Code was levelled against him for a positive test result for the stimulant Benzoylecognine, a cocaine metabolite, in September last year," ICC further said.

"The first of Taylor's anti-corruption breaches was for failing to disclose "(without unnecessary delay) the receipt of any gift, payment, hospitality or other benefit that (a) the participant knew or should have known was given to them to procure a breach of the Code or (b) that was made or given in circumstances that could bring the participant or the sport of cricket into disrepute'," continued the ICC statement.

"Taylor was also guilty of not disclosing '(without unnecessary delay), a receipt of gifts/hospitality with a value of US$750 or more regardless of the circumstances in which they were given'," it added.

"The third charge was not disclosing '(without unnecessary delay), full details of the approach received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code' including in relation to a then upcoming series against Sri Lanka and/or Bangladesh.

"In the fourth and final charge, Taylor breached the Code by obstructing or delaying an Anti-Corruption Unit investigation, including 'concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code'."

Taylor has played 284  matches for Zimbabwe since 2004, registering 9,938 runs to his name with 17 centuries.