Police confirm electrocution as cause of Tom Maynard’s death – Cricket News Roundup - June 23, 2012 - Part 3
Electrocution has been confirmed as the cause behind the recent death of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 Lions’ batsman Tom Maynard, as revealed by the British Transport Police’s investigation.
Maynard as found dead near the train tracks at Wimbledon Park station on June 18, after having fled on foot when police stopped him for driving erratically.
A forensic post mortem, which was conducted by a Home Office pathologist, revealed that the 23-year-old suffered http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Burns-c48842 after stepping on to a live rail, in addition to sustaining multiple injuries after he was hit by a train on the London underground.
The young batsman’s sudden death sent shockwaves throughout the cricket community, with tributes pouring in from all quarters. A detailed investigation into the circumstance of his death will be carried out later this year. Meanwhile, the right-hander’s
funeral is due to be held at the Llandaff Cathedral at 12pm on July 4.
Pakistani leg-spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314 has expressed the intent to appeal against the lifetime ban from cricket issued to him by a disciplinary panel at the England and Wales Cricket Board, terming the verdict “very unfair”.
“I'm very upset about this decision,” he told Sky Sports News. “For what reason they have convicted me I do not know. It is a very, very unfair decision against me. I've come all the way from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 to say the truth.”
Kaneria was found guilty of spot-fixing during his stint with County club Essex, having acted as the middleman and set up a deal which saw young pacer Mervyn Westfield accepting 6000 pounds in exchange for conceding a set amount of runs in during a match
against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 in 2009.
Kaneria had earlier been arrested and released by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 police, owing to insufficient evidence. However, the ECB branded him guilty, and handed him a lifetime ban from the sport, with Westfield getting banned for 5 years.
Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MG-Johnson-c1945 in the list of 17 contracted players for 2012-13, pointing out that the pacer had been granted a two-year contract in 2011, which he had been granted by the previous selection panel
under Andrew Hilditch.
The inclusion of Johnson, who has not played for the national side since sustaining a leg injury during a Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Cowan and George
Bailey from the recently released list of contracted players.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robert-John-Inverarity-c85980 also backed Johnson’s inclusion, claiming that his
past record was good enough for the governing body to offer him a central contract.
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