Pakhtoons captain Shahid Afridi was a popular player throughout the T10 League last season. Pawan Singh / The National
Pakhtoons captain Shahid Afridi was a popular player throughout the T10 League last season. Pawan Singh / The National

T10 League announces new steps to fight corruption in partnership with ICC



The T10 League on Tuesday announced additional measures to keep this year's cricket tournament free of corruption.

Organisers of the first ever 10-overs competition, the inaugural season of which was held in Sharjah last year, also hoped to persuade the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to let its players compete in the tournament, which will again be held in the emirate from November 23-December 2.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) and its anti-corruption unit, which examine each league on financial and corruption-related issues, had in August given the green light for the expanded 2018 edition.

And aside from continuing to outsource anti-corruption, anti-doping and umpiring responsibilities to the ICC, the organisers announced a series of steps to counter corruption, including a regulation barring players from after-match parties to eliminate any potential contact with questionable elements.

Former Sri Lanka opening batsman Roshan Mahanama has been appointed head of the technical committee to ensure compliance to all ICC codes and regulations.

"We are fully mindful of the various ICC compliances, and make serious and continuous endeavours to total and complete implementation," Saadullah Khan, a partner of the league, said on Tuesday.

The league, which is close to appointing a former top official of an Indian Premier League franchise as the competition's chief executive, also announced the formation of a governing council that will include representatives from the Emirates Cricket Board.

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There is still hope among the organisers the PCB will allow its top players to take part in the tournament.

Last week, new PCB chairman Ehsan Mani had said he wants to enforce the policy of permitting their contracted players to play in just one Twenty20 league, other than the Pakistan Super League. This, he had said, is important so the board can manage the workload of its leading players, meaning they are less likely to appear in the T10 League and UAE T20x.

Mani added the PCB has a duty to protect its players’ welfare, as well as its own reputation.

Saadullah, however, said: "We hope we will have approval of PCB for participation of Pakistani players, as they are an integral part of T10 cricket growth."

The league has already placed former cricketers Mohammed Azharuddin of India and Pakistan's Wasim Akram in charge of their global talent hunt programme. Other former players – Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) and Virender Sehwag (India) – have been named the league's "icons".

This year, two teams – The Karachians and Northern Warriors – have been added to the list of six teams: reigning champions Kerala Kings, Punjab Legends, Maratha Arabians, Bengal Tigers, Rajputs and Pakhtoons.

The teams will be drawn into two groups.

At a glance

Global events: Much of the UK’s economic woes were blamed on “increased global uncertainty”, which can be interpreted as the economic impact of the Ukraine war and the uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs.

 

Growth forecasts: Cut for 2025 from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The OBR watchdog also estimated inflation will average 3.2 per cent this year

 

Welfare: Universal credit health element cut by 50 per cent and frozen for new claimants, building on cuts to the disability and incapacity bill set out earlier this month

 

Spending cuts: Overall day-to day-spending across government cut by £6.1bn in 2029-30 

 

Tax evasion: Steps to crack down on tax evasion to raise “£6.5bn per year” for the public purse

 

Defence: New high-tech weaponry, upgrading HM Naval Base in Portsmouth

 

Housing: Housebuilding to reach its highest in 40 years, with planning reforms helping generate an extra £3.4bn for public finances

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Name: Greg Heinricks

From: Alberta, western Canada

Record fish: 56kg sailfish

Member of: International Game Fish Association

Company: Arabian Divers and Sportfishing Charters

Sheer grandeur

The Owo building is 14 storeys high, seven of which are below ground, with the 30,000 square feet of amenities located subterranean, including a 16-seat private cinema, seven lounges, a gym, games room, treatment suites and bicycle storage.

A clear distinction between the residences and the Raffles hotel with the amenities operated separately.

The smuggler

Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple. 
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.

Khouli conviction

Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.

For sale

A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.

- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico

- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000

- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950

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