SHC orders Kaneria to submit his reply

The ECB has claimed that the banned off-spinner owes them £249,000.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notice to banned leg-spinner Danish Kaneria on the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) request to attach (i.e. auction) his property to recover £249,000 fine imposed on him for spot-fixing.

A single bench, headed by Justice Azizur Rehman, directed the cricketer to submit his reply by August 18.

Last week, the ECB had approached the SHC to help them recover almost £249,000 in fines and costs levelled against Kaneria.

A disciplinary panel of the ECB banned Kaneria in June 2012 after he was found guilty of corruption while playing for Essex in a limited-overs match in 2009 and imposed a fine of £100,000 on the cricketer. He lost his second and final appeal against the penalty in August 2014.

The board had pleaded to the court to order Kaneria to pay the fine and additional costs incurred over the course of the case. The lawsuit demands total costs of £249,000 from Kaneria.

Kaneria is Pakistan’s most prolific Test spinners with 261 wickets in 61 matches.

He is also only the second-ever Hindu to play for Pakistan at the highest level — the first was his wicketkeeping cousin Anil Dalpat — and was something of a poster-child for the country’s minorities until his ban.

On Monday, the ECB’s lawyer came up with a request to order attaching the cricketer’s property in Karachi’s Clifton locality in order to recovery the amount.

Justice Azizur Rehman issued notice to the defendant for August 18 to file his reply.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4^th,  2015.

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