Danish Kaneria has finally admitted his role in a spot fixing scandal, six years after the offence which saw his Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield imprisoned and the Pakistan spinner issued with a lifetime ban.

Westfield served half of a four-month prison sentence for accepting £6,000 from an illegal bookmaker for an offence in a game with Durham in 2009. It was Kaneria who introduced Westfield to the bookmaker. Westfield was later banned from professional cricket for five years by the England and Wales Cricket Board, who imposed a life ban on Kaneria.