Full Name Gulam Bodi Career start 1996 Batting style Left-handed Position Batsman | Role Batsman National team | |
Born ( 1979-01-04 ) 4 January 1979 (age 45) Birth Place Bowling style Slow left-arm chinamen |
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Gulam Hussain Bodi (born 4 January 1979) is an Indian-born South African cricketer who has represented his country at Under-19, Twenty20 and ODI level. He is a left-handed batsman and a handy slow left-arm chinaman bowler. Bodi has represented various teams in South African domestic cricket, Transvaal, Easterns, KwaZulu-Natal and The Titans. In June 2007 he played for an African XI in a Twenty20 game against an Asia XI and made his ODI debut in a game against Zimbabwe later in that years.
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He was one of the beneficiaries of the selection policy criticized by Kevin Pietersen, forcing him from KwaZulu-Natal.
In January 2016 he was charged by Cricket South Africa (CSA) under their anti-corruption code for match fixing in the 2015–16 Ram Slam T20 Challenge. On 14 January 2016 CSA confirmed that it was Bodi that was at the centre of a possible match fixing scandal, and on 25 January 2016 it was announced that he had been banned from cricket for 20 years.