Khalid Latif

The Pakistan Cricket Board has filed an appeal seeking a life ban on disgraced national team batsman, Khalid Latif, who was banned for five years and fined one million rupees for spot fixing.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has included opener Sharjeel Khan and fast bowler Muhammad Sami in the squad for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20 tournaments after injuries to Babar Azam and Ruman Raees.

Battling charges of spot-fixing, Pakistan's suspended batsman Khalid Latif could face more disciplinary action after he refused to appear before the Cricket Board's Anti-Corruption Unit in Lahore.

Pakistan on Monday recalled experienced opener Ahmed Shehzad in their 15-member squad for World Twenty20 cricket Championship in India, while retaining the struggling Shahid Afridi as captain.

The Pakistan Cricket Board's anti-corruption unit has summoned its players Mohammad Irfan and Shahzaib Hasan for questioning in the Pakistan Super League spot-fixing case.

The PCB has found no evidence of match-fixing in the Asian Games cricket tournament match between the Pakistan A team and Afghanistan which the latter won unexpectedly to qualify for the final.

Pakistan batsman Khalid Latif is likely to be handed a ban of upto 10 years by the three-member Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the PCB. The Tribunal headed by a former Judge of the Lahore High Court is expected to announce its verdict on Khalid's spot- fixing case on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is seeking life bans on Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif for their alleged role in spot-fixing during the second edition of the Pakistan Super League in Dubai. PCB legal advisor said the Board was taking all corruption and fixing issues as zero tolerance.

Pakistan batsman Khalid Latif has been handed a five-year ban and fined one million rupees by the anti-corruption tribunal after finding him guilty of six breaches of the Pakistan Cricket Board's anti-corruption code.

Pakistan's national team batsmen, Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have denied any involvement in spot-fixing during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in their initial response to the showcause notice issued to them by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

A Dutch court Monday sentenced a former Pakistani cricketer to 12 years in prison over allegations that he incited people to kill anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. Khalid Latif, 37, stood accused of offering a bounty of some ₹21,000 to anybody who killed Wilders.

Pakistan's Test batsman Sharjeel Khan has been handed a five-year ban, half of it suspended by the three member anti-corruption tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board, based on circumstantial evidence.

Pakistan batsman Sharjeel Khan, who was today banned for five years on spot-fixing charges, said he has reservations over the decision announced by the three-member Anti-Corruption tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Test batsman Sharjeel Khan's appeal against the five-year ban imposed on him by an Anti-Corruption tribunal for spot-fixing has been dismissed by an independent adjudicator of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday charged former Test opener Nasir Jamshed with multiple breaches of its Anti-corruption Code of Conduct and given him 14 days to respond to the charges.

Pakistan's former Test captain Aamir Sohail has called on Najam Sethi, a top official of the PCB, to resign if the board fails to prove spot-fixing allegations against suspended players Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif and Shahzaib Hasan.

Former Pakistan international cricketer Khalid Latif on Monday was handed a 12-year prison sentence by a Dutch court for urging the murder of anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders. In an online video, the 37-year-old Latif offered a sum of 21,000 euros ($22,500) for the head of Geert Wilders, who had initiated a controversial competition involving cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The lawyer for suspended batsman, Khalid Latif, claimed on Monday that the Pakistan Cricket Board has already made up its mind to punish the national team player on charges of spot-fixing.

Pakistan's suspended batsman, Khalid Latif has decided to take his spot-fixing case to the Supreme Court instead of waiting for a final verdict from the three- member anti-corruption tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Pakistan's tainted opening batsman Sharjeel Khan is set to be part of the players draft for the fifth edition of PSL. Sharjeel, who completed a five-year ban for breaching the Pakistan Cricket Board's Anti-Corruption code in August, has been given clearance by the board to resume playing club cricket.