ICC v. Akhilesh

The player is Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy, a 26-year-old American international who made his USA T20I debut in April 2025 and had played four T20 internationals in total by the time of the incident. "ADT10" refers to the Abu Dhabi T10 League 2025 in the United Arab Emirates, a tournament held in the UAE rather than the United States. Reddy's Aspin Stallions squad also included former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and England's Sam Billings. The ICC acted as Designated Anti-Corruption Official (DACO) for the tournament on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board, which is why the ICC brought the case despite the player's American nationality.

On the morning of 19 November 2025, shortly before his team Aspin Stallions' opening match, Reddy approached a teammate and asked him to deliberately concede extra runs while bowling, at the request of team management. The teammate refused, reported the approach to the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit, and was subsequently left out of the playing eleven. During the ensuing investigation, Reddy admitted deleting WhatsApp messages and call logs exchanged with that teammate on the same morning.

An ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal — Michael J. Beloff KC, Justice Kate O'Regan, and Lloyd Mhishi — found Reddy guilty on three counts: Article 2.1.1 (attempting to fix or improperly influence a match), Article 2.1.4 (soliciting another participant to breach the Code), and Article 2.4.7 (obstructing the investigation by deleting relevant data). The Tribunal treated the fixing-attempt and solicitation charges as a single course of conduct carrying a seven-year suspension, and added a separate one-year suspension for the obstruction, for a total of eight years, backdated to 21 November 2025 (when Reddy was first provisionally suspended) and running to 2033.

The case is a useful illustration of how the ICC's jurisdiction actually operates: it followed the tournament and the host federation's designation of the ICC as DACO, not the nationality of the player involved.