Westfield and Majeed lose appeals against spot-fixing convictions - Cricket News Roundup – May 31, 2012 – Part 3
London-based sport agent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed, and former Essex pacer Mervyn Westfield have both lost the appeals registered against their convictions in two separate cases of spot-fixing.
Majeed was sentenced by the Southwark Crown Court in November last year to two years and eight months in prison for having abetted the trio of Pakistani players – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675 – in a plot to bowl deliberate no-balls during
a Test match against England at Lord’s in 2010. Westfield, meanwhile was implicated for having agreed to purposely underperform in a County match between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 in exchange for corrupt payments.
The Lord Judge at the Court of Appeal refused to consider the requests, saying the menace of corruption in cricket needed to be dealt with strictly in order to eradicate it.
In response to the growing threat of match and spot fixing in domestic limited-overs matches, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 and Wales Cricket Board have created an anti-corruption team for the purpose of overseeing County matches.
The seven-member unit, overseen by Chris Watts, will be active from the middle of June to the end of August, and will be investigating both the televised and non-televised matches due to take place in the Friends Life T20 competition and the CB40 competition.
“They will be a visible presence at matches and will act as a constant reminder to players, officials and club personnel of the need for constant vigilance … we seek to identify, prevent and eradicate corrupt practises from our domestic game,” confirmed
ECB Chief Executive http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-G-Collier-c52800.
Pacer Mohammad Amir recently met with the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board twice, and while the board has refused to disclose the agenda of the meetings, it marks the first official meeting the 20-year-old has had with the PCB since his release from prison
in February this year.
“We have recently had two [meetings] with Amir during which he was debriefed and was asked some questions that we do not want to disclose to the media,” the PCB's chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmed, told the
AFP.
The young pacer was sentenced to 6 months in prison following his conviction in a spot-fixing scandal late last year, but released after serving half his sentence. He is due to be enrolled in a rehabilitation programme, after which the PCB intends to integrate
him back into the squad once he has served the 5-year ban from the sport enforced on him by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625.
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