Kaneria urged to ‘come clean’ after appeal loss

Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was urged to ‘come clean’ after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rejected his appeal against a life ban from cricket at a hearing in London Tuesday.
The ECB handed down the life ban last year after a panel found him guilty of inducing his then Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield to deliberately under-perform.

He got him to agree to concede a certain number of runs in return for money while bowling in a county one-day match in 2009. After Tuesday’s verdict, ECB chairman Giles Clarke, called who was also chairman of the International Cricket Council’s Pakistan task force from 2010-2012, called on Kaneria to make a clean breast of the matter.

‘It is high time that Mr Kaneria came clean about his involvement in these corrupt activities and stopped misleading the Pakistan cricket fans and wider public with his empty protestations of innocence.’
Clarke said he hoped this latest decision would serve as a ‘stark reminder’ of the ‘life-changing consequences of corruption’.

‘We note, with regret, that Mr Kaneria has neither made any admission of guilt nor expressed any remorse for his corrupt actions despite the weight of evidence against him and the fact that, after two lengthy hearings, his guilt has now been resoundingly established on two separate occasions by two separate independent panels,’ Clarke said in a separate ECB statement.