An independent adjudicator on Friday increased the ban on Pakistan’s World Twenty/20-winning opener Shahzaib Hasan from one year to four on appeal from the Country’s Cricket Board.

Hasan, 28, was banned in February this year after being found guilty of not disclosing a fixing offer to the anti-corruption unit of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

He was also fined one million rupees ($8 200).

The PCB had appealed the length of the ban, saying it was too lenient.

“The independent adjudicator Justice (retired) Hamid Hussain has accepted (the) PCB’s appeal and lifted the ban to four years while upholding the fine,” the board’s legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi told media.

Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed, unlike match-fixing, where the whole result is fixed.

Shahzaib is one of six players sanctioned in the spot-fixing case which rocked the second edition of Pakistan Super League last year, a Twenty/20 tournament.