Kaneria due to face ECB’s disciplinary hearing – Cricket News Update
Under-suspicion Pakistani leg-spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 and Wales Cricket Board disciplinary hearing, due to take place on June 18, to which he has been summoned, along with former
Essex pacer Mervyn Westfield, on charges of spot-fixing.
“Danish has finally got his visa to travel to London and is scheduled to fly out on June 14 with his lawyer, Faroog Naseem, to attend the hearing. He is confident he will be cleared at the hearing of all charges,” confirmed a source close to the cricketer.
“Danish and his legal team have prepared a strong reply to the charges against him and will submit it to the ECB at the hearing.”
Kaneria’s name first came up in the Essex spot-fixing scandal when the incident first came to light in late 2009. Both Westfield and Kaneria were arrested by the Essex police, but Kaneria was later released after questioning, owing to insufficient evidence
linking him to the case.
Westfield, however, was tried and sentenced in February this year to four months in prison on counts of having agreed to accept 6000 pounds in exchange for deliberately underperforming and bowling so that a certain amount of runs would be conceded in a particular
over during a Pro-40 match played between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 in September 2009.
Mark Milliken-Smith, Westfield’s QC, named Kaneria in court as the middle-man who had set up the deal, alleging that the spinner had received 4000 pounds as part of the bargain. The 31-year-old denied the charge, and vowed to clear his name. The right-armer,
a veteran of 61 Tests and 18 ODIs, has not played for the national team since 2010, when the scandal came to light, and has yet to be cleared by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board’s integrity committee.
Meanwhile, Westfield has been released from prison after serving half of his sentence, and the ECB has summoned both players to a disciplinary hearing “relating to their alleged breaches of the ECB's anti-corruption directives.”
The hearing, which has already been postponed twice, owing to Kaneria’s visa issues, is due to be chaired by the chief of the ECB's cricket discipline commission, Gerard Elias QC.
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