http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 disappointed with Kaneria’s renewed spot-fixing scandal – Cricket News Update
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The national squad was rocked by a massive scandal in 2010, when cricketers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Lords, resulting in their sentencing late last year. While 19-year-old
Aamer has since been released, the two senior players are still serving their jail terms.
“This is really very disappointing for Pakistan cricket, I wish that by the Almighty's grace such things will vanish from our cricket,” Misbah said on Thursday.
“We want to keep away from such things...We have to concentrate on the game, and don't let us bother about that."
Kaneria has been implicated in the recent spot-fixing trial of Mervyn Westfield, his former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 teammate. The 23-year-old Englishman was sentenced to four-months in jail this Thursday, for accepting a payment of £ 6,000 in order to bowl deliberate wides,
so that 12 runs would be conceded during one over in a Pro40 match between Essex and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 in September 2009.
Westfield named the Pakistani leg-spinner as the middle-man who “targeted” him. Kaneria was also issued a warning last year by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625, over the suspect company he kept, a reference to the player’s ties with England-based bookmaker, Arun Bhatia.
While the right-armer had been questioned, and later cleared by both the Essex police and the ECB in September last year, he was recently dragged back into the mess when Westfield accused him of having approached him with the illegal proposition.
The 31-year-old, despite having been cleared of all prior charges, has not yet been cleared by the integrity committee in Pakistan, and has been playing domestic cricket, along with captaining the Sindh team in the ongoing Pentangular Cup.
Kaneria’s lawyer has stressed the fact that his client had been cleared by the ICC, and it remains to be seen what evidence Westfield can bring against Kaneria. The PCB lawyer, Taffazul Rizvi, also maintained a cautious stance, saying that the board would
wait for the final ruling in the mentioned case before taking any action.
"The related authorities will take what action they want to," Misbah said, expressing confidence in the justice system. "It's a team game, a gentleman's game. Whenever these things happen it lessens the interest of the fans, so it should not happen again
and again."
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