On Monday, August 3, the Indian-origin USA player Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy was banned from all forms of cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching three counts of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
The charges relate to the Abu Dhabi T10 2025 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for which the ICC was appointed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (DACO).
The Tribunal found Mr Reddy guilty of the following offences under the Code (According to the ICC Media Statement):
Article 2.1.1 – Attempting to fix, contrive or otherwise influence improperly, or being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or other aspect of matches in the ADT10 2025.
Article 2.1.4 – soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating (or attempting to do the former) another Participant to breach Article 2.1.1 of the Code in one or more Matches in the ADT10 2025.
Article 2.4.7 – Obstructing the DACO’s investigation through deletion of data and messages from a mobile device which may have been relevant to the DACO’s investigation.
The ECB had appointed the ICC as the designated anti-corruption official (DACO), and the ICC’s anti-corruption tribunal has now found Reddy guilty on all three counts. The ban imposed on Reddy is backdated to November 21, 2025, when his suspension began. He made his international debut in April 2025, playing four T20S, all of them T20Is for the USA.
