ICC provisionally suspends USA batter Aaron Jones: Charges against Barbados-born cricketer with 100 international games

Aaron Jones, USA's middle-order batter, has been provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) from all forms of cricket, effective 28 January. The international cricket body has charged him with five breaches of the ICC and Cricket West Indies (CWI) anti-corruption codes linked to the BIM10 league in Barbados in 2023-2024. He has 14 days to respond to the charges.

According to an ICC statement, Jones has been suspended from all forms of cricket with immediate effect (from 28 January 2026), and has 14 days to respond to the charges. Born in New York, Jones grew up playing in Barbados alongside the likes of Shai Hope and Jason Holder. During his initial years, he competed against Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell.

After playing domestic cricket for Barbados in 2017, Jones moved to the USA to fully commit himself to American cricket and has been the mainstay for them since then. So far, Jones has played 52 ODIs and 48 T20Is, scoring 1664 and 770 runs respectively. He has a single century in ODIs.

What are the charges against Aaron Jones?

• Breach of Article 2.1.1 of the CWI Code – Fixing, contriving to fix or otherwise influencing improperly, or being a party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive in any way or otherwise influence improperly, the result, progress, conduct or other aspect of matches in the Bim10 tournament in 2023/24 (or attempting to do so).
• Breach of Article 2.4.2 of the CWI Code – Failing to disclose to Cricket West Indies details of any approaches or invitations to engage in conduct that would amount to a breach of the CWI Code.
• Breach of Article 2.4.4 of the CWI Code – Failing or refusing to cooperate with a reasonable investigation carried out by the Designated Anti-Corruption Official (or his/her designee) in relation to possible offences under the CWI Code.
• Breach of Article 2.4.4 of the ICC Code – Failing to disclose to the ICC ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in Corrupt Conduct under the ICC Code.
• Breach of Article 2.4.7 of the ICC Code – Obstructing the ACU’s investigation into possible Corrupt Conduct by concealing and/or tampering with information that may have been relevant to the investigation, or which may have constituted evidence or led to the discovery of evidence of Corrupt Conduct.

The ICC also said that the charges against Jones are part of a wider investigation, which is likely to expose a few others in due course.