Three Australian cricketers banned for gambling on matches

  08 July 2016    Read: 1258
Three Australian cricketers banned for gambling on matches
Three Australian cricketers have been sanctioned for gambling on matches.
Cricket Australia (CA) says women’s cricketers Hayley Jensen and Corinne Hall, who were both on state and women’s Big Bash League contracts, and Joel Logan – a Futures League player for South Australia – admitted betting on separate games.

All players were banned for two years but Jensen and Hall had 18 months of that penalty suspended – meaning they would serve a six-month ban, expiring this October.

Logan’s ban was wholly suspended.

CA says Jensen admitted placing one bet on the first Test between Australia and New Zealand last November; Hall confessed to putting two bets on last season’s men’s one-day domestic competition; and Logan owned up to two bets on the World Twenty20 tournament last March.

Hall and Jensen were on full state and WBBL contracts while Logan was a Futures League Player contracted on a match-by-match basis, CA said on Wednesday.

The trio would also be required to participate in anti-corruption player education programs delivered by CA.

“These players have accepted the seriousness of their errors and have voluntarily accepted their sanctions,” CA’s head of integrity Iain Roy said in a statement.

“This serves as a timely reminder to all players in cricket that the integrity of our game is a high priority and we won’t accept this being compromised.”

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