Sri Lanka's Jayasuriya handed 2-year ban for corruption

The 49-year-old is also sanctioned for trying to conceal, destroy or tamper with evidence.

The International Cricket Council says Sri Lanka’s former captain Sanath Jayasuriya refused to cooperate with any investigation conducted by its anti-corruption unit.

The ICC said the former captain had refused to cooperate with any investigation conducted by its anti-corruption unit under Article 2.4.6 of the anti-corruption code. “This conviction under the code demonstrates the importance of participants in cricket cooperating with investigations,” ICC General Manager Alex Marshall said.

Jayasuriya played 110 tests, scoring 6,973 runs with 14 hundreds before his retirement from test cricket in 2007.

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