Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor was banned for three-and-a half years on Friday for breaching anti-corruption and anti-doping rules after he failed to report a match-fixing approach and tested positive for cocaine.
The International Cricket Council said Taylor admitted to four charges under the anti-corruption code stemming from an incident in 2019 when he said he accepted $15,000 from businessmen in In-dia, who asked him to fix international games.
Taylor said he was blackmailed and never went through with the arrangement and that he was co-erced into accepting the money. Taylor also was found guilty of an anti-doping offence after testing positive for the stimulant Ben-zoylecognine, which is a cocaine metabolite.
He tested positive after a One-day International against Ireland in September, the ICC said. Taylor retired from international cricket after that series.
Taylor announced the ICC ban was coming in a personal statement on Monday, when he said he had been tricked into meeting with businessmen in India three years ago on the pretense that they wanted to discuss a sponsorship opportunity for him.—AP
