Sri Lanka’s performance analyst Sanath Jayasundara Charged Under ICC Anti-Corruption Code

Sri Lanka’s performance analyst Sanath Jayasundara Charged Under ICC Anti-Corruption Code

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on May 11, 2019 has charged Sri Lankan performance analyst Sanath Jayasundara with two counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

According to an ICC media release, Jayasundara has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect. He has 14 days to respond to the charges.

The Charges are:

Former Sri Lanka national team analyst Jayasundara, who was employed at the SLC Brain Center, was charged under Article 2.1.3 for offering a bribe or other reward to the Sri Lankan sports minister to contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of an international match

or (in the alternative)

Under Article 2.1.1 for contriving in any way or otherwise influencing improperly the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of an international match.

He was also charged under Article 2.4.7 for obstructing or delaying an ACU investigation into possible corrupt conduct under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

Jayasundara was sent compulsory leave in January by the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on alleged corruption charges.

He was employed at SLC for more than 15 years including a long tenure as the national team’s video analyst before he was assigned to the SLC Brain Center at R. Premadasa Stadium.