A third Sri Lankan cricketer has been hit with corruption charges as the International Cricket Council continues its crackdown on fixing.

Dilhara Lokuhettige became the 10th person this year to be charged with corruption offences and the third Sri Lankan in a month, although it is understood the three cases are not directly linked.

Lokuhettige, who now lives in Australia, played a handful of Twenty20 and one-day matches for Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2013. He has been charged with three breaches of the anti-corruption code relating to an alleged attempt to recruit a current Sri Lanka ­international to fix in last year’s T10 tournament in the United Arab Emirates, which is a competition played over 10 overs per side and featured England players, including Alex Hales and Eoin Morgan.

Lokuhettige also appeared in the first Al Jazeera cricket-fixing documentary aired this year. He was filmed in the background of a conversation when another Sri Lankan allegedly offered to fix matches for an undercover reporter. It is understood the ICC was already investigating Lokuhettige and this charge has nothing to do with the documentary. Al Jazeera has still not handed over any unedited footage or evidence to the anti-corruption authorities, but this charge will ­bolster its claim to have broken a fixing ring.