ICC bans USA cricketer Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy for eight yearsThe ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal has banned USA player Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy from all cricket for eight years after finding him guilty of three Anti-Corruption Code breaches linked to the Abu Dhabi T10 2025 tournament in the UAEBy Telangana Today Published Date - 3 August 2026, 04:56 PMHyderabad: USA player Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy has been banned from all cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching three counts of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The charges relate to the Abu Dhabi T10 2025 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for which the ICC was appointed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (DACO). The ban is backdated to November 21, 2025, when Reddy was provisionally suspended. Article 2.4.7 – Obstructing the DACO’s investigation by deleting data and messages from a mobile device that may have been relevant to the DACO’s investigation. The decision on both liability and sanction, which has been redacted to protect the identities of the ICC’s witnesses and other third parties, has been released.