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Former Sri Lanka Test Player Nuwan Zoysa Gets Six-Year Ban For Match-Fixing

By AFP News April 28, 2021 • 13:33 PM View: 2021

Sri Lanka's former Test cricketer and bowling coach Nuwan Zoysa was banned for six years on Wednesday by the International Cricket Council for match-fixing during a T10 tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

The ban on the 42-year-old is backdated to October 2018 when he was suspended pending an investigation into his conduct at the inaugural Sharjah tournament in 2017.

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