USA cricketer Akhilesh Reddy given eight-year ban under anti-corruption code
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- Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy, a USA cricketer, has been banned from all cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of three counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
- The offences occurred during the Abu Dhabi T10 2025 in the UAE, where the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) had appointed the ICC as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (DACO) for the tournament.
- Reddy was convicted under Article 2.1.1 (attempting to fix or improperly influence matches), Article 2.1.4 (soliciting another participant to breach match-fixing rules), and Article 2.4.7 (obstructing the investigation by deleting data and messages from a mobile device).
- The eight-year ban is backdated to 21 November 2025, when Reddy was provisionally suspended, meaning he had already been barred from cricket since November awaiting the tribunal's decision.
Why it matters: The eight-year ban, backdated to 21 November 2025, sidelines Reddy from all cricket through November 2033 — a near-decade absence mid-career. The conviction on an evidence-destruction charge (Article 2.4.7) alongside match-fixing shows the tribunal treats cover-up behavior as seriously as the underlying corruption, with all three charges rolled into a single sanction.
