10 Scandals involving Match-Fixing, Spot-Fixing, and Corruption that rocked Cricket

9. Umar Akmal's ban for failing to report a match-fixing approach 

Going through Umar Akmal’s career, one can see the record of the right-handed batter's several controversies but what impacted his career severely was not reporting Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about the spot-fixing approaches made to him ahead of the 2019 Pakistan Super League (PSL).

Prior to the start of the fourth edition of the PSL in 2019, some people approached the Pakistan stalwart. After the incident, the veteran's duty was to report the incident to the anti-corruption unit, but instead of disclosing it, he kept it a secret, which became the cause for his 18-month suspension from the sport.

Earlier, in February 2020, he was handed a three-year ban from the sport but with the intervention of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, his ban got halved with a fine of 4.25 million Pakistani Rupees for breaching the PCB’s anti-corruption code.