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[caption id="attachment_43711" align="aligncenter" width="552"] 10-year ban for bowling 92-run over. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: A Bangladeshi bowler who deliberately lost a match by giving away 92 runs in just four legal deliveries has been banned for 10 years. The Bangladesh Cricket Board found Sujon Mahmud of Lalmatia club to be guilty. BCB have banished Lalmatia club for an indefinite period from the competettion. The coach, captain and the manager have also been banned for five years from the Dhaka Second Division League. The match occurred last month, were Lalmatia were all out after scoring 88 in just 14 overs. The opponents Axiom Cricketers however won the 50 over match in just four legal deliveries. In his very first over Sujon gave 80 runs which included 13 wide balls and three no balls, all of which reached the boundary. As per the rules of cricket a batsman cans core runs in these illegal deliveries but they don’t count as a part of a bowler’s regular six ball over. Axiom opener Mustafizur Rahman smashed three fours off Sujon's four legitimate balls to take his side home in just 0.4 overs in Dhaka. The cricket board also imposed a ten-year ban on another bowler, Tasnim Hasan, and blacklisted his club Fear Fighters after they threw a separate match in similar fashion. "We have found in our investigations that the bowlers bowled wides and no-balls deliberately to damage the image of our cricket," the board's disciplinary committee chief Sheikh Sohel told a press briefing. "In neither case would a win or loss have mattered for the promotion or relegation of their respective clubs." Lalmatia Club secretary Adnan Rahman had admitted Sujon bowled the wides and no-balls as a protest against poor umpiring. The secretary alleged the umpires did not even allow his team captain to see the coin after the toss. The BCB also suspended for six months the umpires overseeing both the discredited matches. The most runs conceded in an over in international cricket is 36 – a six from every ball – which has happened in both limited overs formats, and twice in first-class cricket but never (yet) in a Test match. The most runs off an over in a first-class match is the 77 Wellington's Bert Vance conceded against Canterbury in 1990. A series of full-tosses and no-balls dotted the 22-ball over as Wellington tried to induce Canterbury to chase a target in the hope of forcing a result. In ODI cricket, Herschelle Gibbs blasted six straight sixes off Netherlands bowler Daan van Bunge in the 2007 World Cup in St Kitts, while in T20 internationals Yuvraj Singh sent Stuart Broad into the stands off six consecutive balls in the 2007 World T20 in Durban. The most runs from an over in Test cricket is 28, which has been reached twice – by Brian Lara off Robin Peterson's bowling at the Wanderers in 2003, and by George Bailey who took the long handle to James Anderson in Perth during the 2013-14 Ashes whitewash.