High-profile coach Avishka Gunawardene has become the latest ex-Sri Lanka cricketer to attract corruption charges, after he was slapped with two counts of breaching the Emirates Cricket Board's (ECB) Anti-Corruption code. He has been provisionally suspended under the ECB code pending the determination of the charges.

Gunawardene's charges relate to the T10 tournament played in the United Arab Emirates in 2017, in which he was the head coach of "Team Sri Lanka". Nuwan Zoysa, who was bowling coach on that trip, has also been charged with four counts of breaching the ECB's code.

Where Zoysa had already been charged with three counts of breaching the ICC's own code in October last year, Gunawardene is now embroiled in corruption allegations for the first time. And where Zoysa had been sent on compulsory leave by Sri Lanka Cricket when those charges were laid in October, Gunawardene has continued to work as the head coach of Sri Lanka's A team, and more recently, the Emerging Team.

The charges against Gunawardene are as follows:

• Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any participant to breach [the anti-corruption] Code

• Failing to disclose to the Anti-Corruption Unit (without unnecessary delay) full details of any incident, fact, or matter that comes to the attention of a participant that may evidence corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code by another participant.

The ECB's charges on Zoysa, meanwhile, largely map on to the charges the ICC had laid in October, with one additional charge now being brought. Originally, he stood accused of accused of:

• Being involved in attempting to fix or otherwise influence improperly the result or other aspects of a match

• Soliciting fellow professionals to do the same, and

• Failing to disclose any approach by potential fixers to the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit

He has been essentially charged with all of the above by the ECB, as well as with failing or refusing, without compelling justification, to cooperate with any investigation carried out by the ACU in relation to possible corrupt conduct.

SLC's CEO Ashley de Silva said the board had not yet made a decision about how to react to the charges laid against Gunawardene, but that a decision would be made on Friday. Gunawardene was due to coach the Emerging Team on a tour of South Africa in June.

Both Gunawardene and Zoysa now have 14 days to respond to these charges.

In addition to these two men, Sanath Jayasuriya and Dilhara Lokuhettige had also been dealt with corruption-related charges as part of a broad ACU investigation in Sri Lanka. Jayasuriya is presently serving a two-year ban on all cricket-related activities for refusing to co-operate with investigations.