Irfan Ahmed a Hong Kong cricketer has been faced by corruption charges after it was alleged by the International Cricket Council that he violated the Article 2.4.2 of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. Ahmed faces the same offence that was once conducted by New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent for fixing matches in England.

He will face a tribunal on charges of failure to report match fixing scandal after he was approached by a match fixer. If he is found guilty, he will be banned to around two to five years. This would be a big blow for the Indian Cricketer who was scheduled to lead his team in the upcoming Twenty20 Championship in March. It will be also a big blow for the Hong Kong cricket. Currently Ahmed is ranked 11^th in the World T20 rankings.

The ICC Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) claimed that it would continue investigating various bookies that have a tendency of targeting associate nation players for match fixing and other irregularities.

Another Hong Kong based player Kevin Egan of Australia claimed that Ahmed may not be faced by serious charges after it was noted that the only mistake he did was failing to report the match fixing irregularity that was conducted by a former Pakistan cricketer.

The named Pakistan cricketer is believed to be Nasem Gulzar. He is believed to be Ahmed mentor since the latter moved to Hong Kong. Gulzar has been faced by several match-fixing scandals and was once mentioned during a try of Chris Cairns who formerly represented New Zealand in international levels.

Generally, ICC has no mandate to make a comment in regards to the ACU matters. However, the head of investigative branch of ICC Ronnie Flanagan claimed that players should be on the lookout for these match fixers who are now targeting players earning low income and bribe them with substantial amounts to lose a specific game. He continued to claim that the cricket has been on the target and this may be a spread risk towards the success of domestic cricket games as well as low lever international matches.

Andrew Smith a onetime player with Butler basketball died on Tuesday morning at a tender age of 25. Smith was named the Academic All-American star in between 2010 and 2013. He would later be included in the Bulldog’s line up for the championship in 2010 and 2011. He made 38 appearances during the 2010/2011 season with 32 starts. It was during a game against University of Connecticut that Smith pulled down nine boards. After graduating in Butler, Smith made an appearance in oversee clubs.

Both Butler President James Danko and Butler Vice President/Director of Athletics Barry Collier remembered him not for his skills but for the kind person Andrew was. In a statement, the two claimed that more often than not Smith would care more to those around him more than he cared about a game. He had a human heart that portrayed the inside part of him and for that reason he will always be a Bulldog. The two were on the front line in praising Andrew for his courageous battle with cancer just like he fought hard to achieve his objectives at the court.

Others such as his former head coach at Butler Brad Stevens who is the current head coach at Boston Celtics paid Smith a visit last Thursday and he claimed in a statement that he has never seen the tough, kind and special person Andrew was.

His family claimed that Smith would be later be diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma two years ago. He immediately initiated chemotherapy in 2014 which proved beneficial as he was able to regain his fitness and returned to work. However, in the summer of 2014, Smith collapsed forcing his heart to stop for almost 20 minutes with paramedics fighting for his life until a pulse was detected. He fell into an induced coma shortly after.

Despite having minimum traces of cancer in September 2014, the full borne disease would resurrect again in 2015 and prompted him to undertake an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant in November 2015.