PCB satisfied with Kaneria’s life ban – Cricket News Update
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), for his involvement in a spot-fixing scam, sources from inside the board revealed.
The Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, Zaka http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397, said that Kaneria had refused to cooperate with PCB’s integrity committee despite receiving a number of notices, so now the board would not stand with him in this case.
"We asked Kaneria to discuss with the PCB about his case but he refused to co-operate so we let him on his own then," Zaka Ashraf told media on Saturday.
The PCB chief reiterated his board has zero tolerance policy against corruption.
"Pakistan cricket has suffered enough and we don't want to take any further chances. We have a strict zero tolerance against the corrupt element," Ashraf insisted.
Kaneria, the 31-year-old right-arm leg-spinner from Pakistan was given a life ban from English cricket, after he was found guilty of corruption in connection to the Mervyn Westfield spot-fixing case during a hearing in London, which lasted for five days.
The ECB in its ruling maintained that the former Pakistan spinner was a liar, who induced the young http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 batsman not to perform on his merits in a CB 40 match, in 2009.
“We regard Danish Kaneria as a grave danger to the game of cricket and we must take every appropriate step to protect our game from his corrupt activities,” read the ECB judgment.
“Accordingly, we are unanimously of the view that only appropriate sanction in relation to both charges is one of suspension for life and that is the sanction we impose.”
Tafazzul Rizvi, the legal advisor of PCB was also present at the spot-fixing hearing, as an observer only, and had access to the charges and evidences against the disgraced spinner.
Kaneria is not the first Pakistan cricketer to earn a punishment from England cricketing authorities for involvement in corrupt activities. Last year three Pakistan players, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675 were handed jail sentences by a London
court for their involvement in spot-fixing during a Test match against Pakistan in August 2010.
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