PCB allows Umar Akmal to play club cricket. Cricket News – Times of India

KARACHI: Controversial Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has been allowed to play club cricket as part of his rehabilitation process, which was approved by the country’s cricket board last month.PCB) said on Wednesday.
In July, Umar apologized for not reporting the corrupt approach last year, which led to him being banned for 12 months.
“In the processes completed till date, Umar has shown remorse, attended an anti-corruption lecture and participated in a Q&A session. Security and Anti-Corruption Department,” the PCB said in a statement.

The board also said that if Umar successfully completes his rehabilitation process, he will be eligible to participate in the 2021/22 Pakistan domestic cricket season.
The 30-year-old Umar, who played 16 Tests, 121 ODIs and 84 T20 Internationals in a controversial career, was provisionally suspended the night before. PSL Started in February 2020 for not reporting the spot-fixing approach in Lahore.
He was banned for three years in April this year after the PCB Anti-Corruption Tribunal held and heard the charges against him.
But he appealed before the PCB Appeals Tribunal which reduced the ban to 18 months.
The PCB opposed the reduction in the ban and filed a petition in the Court of Arbitration for the Games in Geneva, while Umar also filed an appeal against the ban at the same forum.
The CAS, in its judgment earlier this year, had set the ban period at 12 months, but found Umar guilty of violating the Anti-Corruption Code and fined him Rs 42 lakh.
Umar, who has been suspended from all cricketing activities since February 2020 and completed his ban two months ago, paid the full fine to the PCB even after the board rejected his request to pay the fine in the first installments.
Umar was charged with two violations of Article 2.4.
Umar’s two elder brothers Kamran and Adnan have also played both. Test and International cricket for the country