http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314 continues to be ignored by Pakistan Cricket Board - Cricket News
Pakistani spin bowler, Danish Kaneria still awaits clearance from the governing body of the game in the country, Pakistan Cricket Board, after the player has been in the wilderness since the first test against England, played at Trent
Bridge, Nottingham, last year.
Things took a bad turn for the Karachi based player when the PCB asked him to provide details of the police inquiry he underwent last season in England. Kaneria was allegedly involvement in spot-fixing with his Essex team-mate, Mervyn
Westfield.
Kaneria was bailed after recording his statement at the Metropolitan Police Office in London and was subsequently cleared-off his involvement in the matter. Earlier this year, his lawyer, Steve Haurigan held a press conference in Karachi.
Only a few days ago, Kaneria’s long standing English county team Essex replaced him with South African fast-bowler, Lonwabo Tsotsobe for the on-going season.
During the press conference, Haurigan had blamed PCB's reluctance to clear the leg-spinner as the reason for the snub by Essex and other English County sides.
Kaneria's lawyer added, "We want to know what objections the PCB has against Danish continuing to play. Because they haven't told him or us what those objections are. They are blocking him playing not only in Pakistan for the Pakistan
team but also obviously outside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 who are willing and almost queuing up to sign up Danish are reluctant to do it, understandably because they are not sure what's
going on."
On the other hand, PCB claims that they have been asking Kaneria to provide a statement of his conversation with Metropolitan Police which the leg-spinner has not done yet and the Board has not cleared him for International cricket.
An unnamed PCB official, said, "We have been asking Danish to provide us with the statement he gave to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 police when he was under investigation in the spot-fixing scandal in county cricket last year. But so far he has not provided
us with the statement."
On his part, the leg-spinner with 261 test scalps has stated more than once that the document the PCB requires is not with him, since he was given clearance by Metropolitan Police. He added that he does not have the recordings of his
statements, which the Board has asked for.
Kaneira was one of three players alongside the now discarded wicket-keeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Malik-c90088, who were summoned before the PCB's integrity committee in order to gain clearance before the World Cup tournament
that finished last month in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
The inquiry by the integrity committee was no less a challenge for the Board itself, which forced the body to delay the announcement of their 30-man World Cup preliminary squad until January 5. Later, when the actual team for the tournament
was announced only Kamran got the nod for selection.
Kaneria was part of the squad selected for the test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in UAE last November, but he was stopped from travelling to Dubai hours before his departure.
At present, the stalemate between him and the Board continues, as PCB remains adamant that they would not clear him unless he provides the requisite documents.
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