Samuels banned over bookie links
West Indian batsman Marlon Samuels has been banned from cricket for two years for passing on team information to a bookmaker during a one-day series in India in January 2007.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said yesterday that Samuels had brought the game into disrepute, breaching the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Rules of Conduct.
Rule four states that a two-year ban was appropriate, after he "received money, benefit or other reward which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute".
The ICC has imposed the ban, which will keep Samuels out of all cricket until May 2011.
The ICC will review the ban at its board meeting in July.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au
