Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf is OUT

The BCCI has today imposed a ban of five years on the Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf. Asad has been a part of the ICC elite panel for umpires. He however has entered the controversy as he took costly gifts from a bookie. Asad has allegedly accepted these gifts for helping the bookies during IPL 2013. As the match fixing scandal broke up during the IPL 2013, the involvement of Asad too has emerged into the scene. As the investigating agencies in India got prepared to grill Asad, he has silently escaped to Pakistan. Though the BCCI has summoned Asad to deliver a statement before the panel probing the match fixing scam, he never set his foot again in India. Now with the ban, Asad could neither play nor umpire for any match that falls under the preview of BCCI.