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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has been banned for a period of three years from all forms of cricket on corruption charges the country’s cricket board on Monday. Umar Akmal handed three-year ban from all cricket by Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Mr Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan. — PCB Media (@TheRealPCBMedia) April 27, 2020 The PCB officials had charged the 29-year-old middle-order batsman in two separate cases for failing to report corrupt approaches in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 5. His last appearance for the national side was against Sri Lanka in October 2019. Akmal has played 16 Tests, 121 ODIs and 84 T20s for Pakistan.

The pandemic has already affected more than 1 million people across the globe. All kind of sporting events including cricket has been canceled. But apart from all this crisis, the pandemic has caused as many as eight Aussie cricketers have been forced to postpone their wedding functions. The eight cricketers are Adam Zampa, Jackson Bird, D’arcy Short, Mitchell Swepson, Alister McDermott, Andrew Tye, Jess Jonassen, and Katelyn Fryett. The situation down under has been quite bad recently. Everyone has been advised to stay at home to slow down the virus.