USA international Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy has been banned from all cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of attempting to fix matches, encouraging another player to participate in corrupt conduct and obstructing the subsequent investigation during the 2025 Abu Dhabi T10 tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
The suspension has been backdated to 21 November 2025, when Reddy was provisionally suspended, leaving him ineligible to play until November 2033.
The case was handled by the International Cricket Council after it was appointed by the Emirates Cricket Board as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official for the Abu Dhabi T10 competition.
The tribunal's published decision provides substantially more detail than the original disciplinary announcement. According to evidence accepted by the panel, Reddy approached a teammate from Aspin Stallions in the team hotel before the franchise's opening match and asked him to deliberately concede additional runs if selected to play. The teammate rejected the proposal and later cooperated with investigators.
Reddy denied making any corrupt approach, maintaining the conversation instead related to a potential USA training camp ahead of the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
After reviewing witness testimony and supporting evidence, the tribunal found the teammate's account credible and ruled that the fixing approach had been proven to the required standard under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
The panel imposed concurrent seven-year sanctions for attempting to improperly influence a match and attempting to recruit another participant into the scheme.
A further one-year suspension was added consecutively after investigators established that Reddy had deleted messages and other material from his mobile phone that could have been relevant to the inquiry.
Integrity oversight has become an increasingly prominent issue for franchise cricket, particularly in short-format tournaments where betting markets can extend beyond match results to individual overs and passages of play.
The Abu Dhabi T10 has previously been the subject of ICC anti-corruption investigations, with multiple participants charged over attempts to corrupt the 2021 edition of the competition.
Reddy, who made four T20 international appearances for the United States after debuting in April 2025, featured twice for Aspin Stallions during the tournament before his provisional suspension.
The ICC said the tribunal's written decision has been published in redacted form to protect witnesses and third parties involved in the investigation.
The latest ruling follows another high-profile integrity case reported by Global Gaming Insider in July, when former Adroit basketball players Oleksandr Kolchenko and Sergii Pryimak received lifetime bans from FIBA and the Basketball Association of Singapore after being found guilty of manipulating matches.
The ICC has acted as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official for several Abu Dhabi T10 investigations in recent years under arrangements with the Emirates Cricket Board
