The 34-year-old, who is 2.16 metres tall, confessed during a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) anti-corruption unit hearing that he had been approached by a bookmaker in the last six months, but had failed to report the incidents because of the deaths of his father in September and mother in January.

Irfan, a fast bowler who has played four Tests, 60 One-Day Internationals and 20 Twenty20s for Pakistan, has been charged with two violations of the anti-corruption code.

He has 14 days to respond to the charge, which relates to an investigation involving Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif, who also play for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League, and former international cricketer Nasir Jamshed.

Khan, Latif and Jamshed have all already been provisionally suspended.

"The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in furtherance to its investigation issued a Notice of Charge and provisionally suspended Irfan under the PCB Anti-Corruption Code," a PCB statement said.

"He has also been provisionally suspended with immediate effect from participating in all forms of cricket."

It is alleged Khan and Latif met a man suspected of being linked to an international betting syndicate.

Jamshed is accused of being a go-between, with him and an unnamed person arrested in Britain in February before being bailed until next month.

In 2011, three players for the national team, then-skipper Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, were found guilty and jailed alongside bookmaker Mazhar Majeed after Asif and Amir deliberately bowled no-balls during a test against England at Lord's in London.

Amir, who had pleaded guilty before the trial, has since returned to the national side.