"This conviction under the code demonstrates the importance of participants in cricket cooperating with investigations," ICC General Manager Alex Marshall said. "I have always put country first and the cricket loving public are the best witnesses to this aspect. Jayasuriya played 110 tests, scoring 6,973 runs with 14 hundreds before his retirement from the longest format in 2007. It was in the shorter form of the game that he really stamped his name on cricket, though. In January, the ICC granted Sri Lankan cricketers a 15-day amnesty to report previously undisclosed information relating to corruption in the sport.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 27, 2019 17:15 UTC