Former Sri Lanka all-rounder Dilhara Lokuhettige has been charged with corruption-related offences.

Lokuhettige allegedly breached the Emirates Cricket Board’s anti-corruption code.

The charges relate to December 2017’s T10 Cricket League in the United Arab Emirates. However, he was not part of any of the squads in the UAE.

The charges are:

• ‘Being party to an effort to fix or contrive or to otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct, or other aspect(s) of a domestic match.
• ‘Directly soliciting, inducing, enticing or encouraging a player to [improperly influence a match]
• ‘Failure to disclose to a designated anti-corruption officer (without unnecessary delay) full details of any approaches or invitations he received to engage in corrupt conduct under the code’.

Lokuhettige reportedly lives in Australia, but has retained links to Sri Lanka cricket.

He was allegedly seen talking about match-fixing in Al Jazeera’s ‘Cricket’s Match Fixers’ documentary earlier this year.

The 38-year-old played nine ODIs and two T20Is between 2013 and 2015.

Fellow Sri Lankans Nuwan Zoysa and Sanath Jayasuriya have also been charged with corruption-related offences recently.

‘I am under strict legal advice that no comment is to be made in respect of the charges as such a course would offend the International Cricket Council rules,’ said Jayasuriya last month.