Kaneria asked to pay 2,00,000 pounds by ECB disciplinary panel

Problems continued to multiply for Pakistan’s disgraced leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who has now been ordered to pay 2,00,000 pounds in costs by the disciplinary panel of the England and Wales Cricket Board.

‘My lawyers in London have been told by the ECB panel that I have to pay the total costs of 200,000 pounds which cover all legal costs for the ECB hearing held last year and the appeal

proceedings this year,’ Kaneria said on Wednesday. ‘My lawyers are now looking into our next line of action which includes the option of approaching the high court or going to the Court of Arbitration for Sports,’ he said.

Kaneria, whose international cricket career came to a halt in August 2010 after a spot-fixing scandal broke out in English county cricket in September 2009, was banned for life from playing in England by the ECB disciplinary commission last year.