By Saqibul Islam
DHAKA (TheSportsNext) September 4, 2012: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced Tuesday that it has banned former cricketer Shariful Haque from cricket indefinitely after finding him guilty of spot-fixing.
Talking to a news conference in Dhaka, BCB President Mustafa Kamal said, "The allegation made against the player has been substantiated. We have decided to ban him from all cricketing activities until further notice. We will keep watching him and only if we are satisfied will his ban be lifted."
The BCB had conducted an inquiry following an allegation by former skipper Mashrafe Mortaza that Shariful Haque had offered him to do spot-fixing before the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League tournament in February.
Mashrafe Mortaza had reported to his cricket board that Shariful Haque had offered him 15-20 percent share of the earnings from spot betting which was in return for the inside information about whether he would be part of the team in certain matches and even whether he would be wearing sunglasses.
Shariful Haque, who was part of the squad in 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya, represented Bangladesh in one ODI against India in 1998 and is the first cricketer in the country to get penalized for the scourge of spot-fixing.
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