NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court scrapped cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth life ban for match-fixing on Friday but stopped short of acquitting the paceman. The court said Sreesanth’s long-running case had been badly handled and gave the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) three months to reconsider his punishment. “The life ban has been lifted and that’s a big thing,” Sreesanth said after the ruling. It is completely unfair that a life ban was imposed on him (Sreesanth),” his lawyer Salman Khurshid was quoted as saying by the local media. The BCCI said Friday it respected the court’s order and would take up Sreesanth´s case in their next meeting.

Source: Pakistan Today March 15, 2019 07:41 UTC