International Cricket Council Sanctions Player. Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy has been formally banned for eight years after an International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaking three different counts of the sport's anti-corruption code and has been formally banned from all forms of cricket for eight years. The player was suspended from all formats of cricket after the ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found that he had breached three counts of the anti-corruption code. The substantial suspension is now backdated to November 21, 2025 - the date of the first provisional suspension to be made after the player was initially charged by the International Cricket Council.
The disciplinary process was directly due to corrupt activity and breaches in the franchise-based Abu Dhabi T10 tournament in the United Arab Emirates. The ICC acted as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board during the tournament. A professional tribunal panel of Michael J. Beloff KC as Chair, Justice Kate O'Regan, and Lloyd Mhishi, the tribunal judged that the player’s actions directly compromised the integrity of the sport.
Data show that Reddy broke three major articles of the Anti-Corruption Code during the 2025 edition of the tournament. The first violation was the fact that Reddy tried to fix, contrive, or improperly influence the progress, conduct, or outcome of the match, in the form of any kind of match, as outlined in Article 2.1.1. The second violation was in Article 2.1.4 of the Anti-Corruption Code that involved soliciting, inducing, or inciting another member to break the anti-corruption rules, but investigators found that this attempt to influence a teammate failed.
The third violation, as per Article 2.4.7, was that of obstructing the anti-corruption investigation. The tribunal confirmed that on the morning of November 19, 2025, in a hotel room before a match with the Aspin Stallions, Reddy approached a teammate (Player A) and asked him to concede extra runs while bowling on behalf of team management. When Player A was not able to accept the corrupt plan and reported it to the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit, he was discarded from the starting lineup. When Reddy was confronted with the evidence, he admitted that he deleted messages and call logs from his phone. The player tried to defend the behavior as routine data hygiene on his phone, but the tribunal ruled that he destroyed important evidence ahead of the official investigation.
Career and Enforcement Context. Reddy, who made his international debut for the United States against the Cayman Islands in the North America T20 Cup as a player, played for the country in four Twenty20 Internationals, taking one wicket in his career. His last international for the national team was on the eve of these serious accusations, in April 2025. The decision to revoke the rules of international cricket underscores the fact that the governing body has a zero-tolerance policy against corruption and players need to report any illegal activity immediately to anti-corruption authorities.
