Overview
- An independent three‑member ICC Anti‑Corruption Tribunal on Monday found Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy guilty of three breaches of the Anti‑Corruption Code and imposed an eight‑year ban that is backdated to 21 November 2025.
- The tribunal ruled Reddy violated Article 2.1.1 for attempting to improperly influence matches, Article 2.1.4 for soliciting another participant to do so, and Article 2.4.7 for obstructing the probe by deleting data.
- Tribunal documents say the core incident took place the morning of 19 November 2025, when Reddy met a teammate in the team hotel and asked him to ‘give runs’ before the Aspin Stallions’ opening match; the teammate reported the approach to the ICC Anti‑Corruption Unit.
- Reddy admitted deleting WhatsApp messages and a call log with the teammate, a defence the panel rejected as routine phone maintenance, and the sanction combines two concurrent seven‑year penalties plus a consecutive one‑year ban to total eight years.
- The ICC acted as the designated anti‑corruption officer for the Abu Dhabi T10 and the ruling underscores enforcement in short‑format franchise cricket while leaving Reddy ineligible to play until November 2033 and raising questions about player welfare and tournament safeguards.