Opener Aamir Sohail was banned from international and domestic matches for two years by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for violating its code of conduct. The decision announced by PCB disciplinary committee chairman Talat Ali Malek, follows a row beteen Sohail and PCB chief executive Majid Khan during a domestic one-day game. Talat said the three-member disciplinary committee, after a thorough probe, had unanimously found Sohail guilty of breaching the code of conduct by levelling what he called baseless charges of match-fixing and betting against some national team members. Sohail failed to answer two notices served on him to explain his point of view about whatever he said to newspaper reporters involving cricketers gambling, he said.
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