Kaneria hires legal team for ECB spot-fixing hearing

Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria said that he has hired a legal team for an English cricket board disciplinary hearing over a spot-fixing case that sent his former Essex teammate to jail.

Mervyn Westfield was jailed for four months in February after admitting that he accepted money to under-perform during a Pro40 match between Essex and Durham in 2009. The 23-year-old seamer named Kaneria as the link between bookmakers and players. u00a0

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“Kaneria has hired three lawyers, two from the UK and one from Pakistan to represent him before the ECB,” said a statement from the player’s lawyer Farogh Naseem.u00a0

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