FILE PHOTO: South Korea's Twenty20 cricket team celebrate the wicket of Sri Lanka's Danush Dilhara Lokuhettige (R) during their quarter final cricket match at the Yeonhui cricket ground during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed
(Reuters) - Former Sri Lankan all-rounder Dilhara Lokuhettige has been banned from cricket for eight years due to corruption, the International Cricket Council said on Monday.
Lokuhettige, who played nine one-dayers and two Twenty20 internationals for Sri Lanka, was charged with three counts of breaching the anti-corruption code of world governing body.
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