ICC urges worldwide Kaneria ban over corruption
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) board said domestic bodies "should recognise and respect the sanctions... including by enforcing and giving effect to them within their own jurisdictions to the fullest extent permitted by law".
Kaneria was banned for life by English authorities for his involvement in the Mervyn Westfield spot-fixing case. The 31-year-old Pakistani has vowed to appeal the sanction.
Westfield was jailed for four months in February, but served two before being released in April, after admitting he accepted £6,000 ($9,346) to under-perform during a Pro40 match between Essex and Durham in 2009.
The now 24-year-old Westfield named Kaneria – arrested with him in 2010 but released without charge – as the link between bookmakers and players.
Westfield was given a five-year ban for bringing cricket into disrepute, a charge the seamer accepted, although he will be able to play club cricket in the final two years of his suspension.
The ICC is wrestling with the problem of spot-fixing, often bowling no-balls to order by bookmakers, at its annual conference in Kuala Lumpur which wraps up on Thursday.
Kaneria has not played for Pakistan since appearing against England in August 2010 – the same tour that saw the infamous fixing episode in the Lord's Test, which led to then-captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir being jailed on corruption charges.
Butt, jailed for 30 months last November on charges of accepting corrupt payments, was freed from an English prison on Thursday.
Amir was released in February after serving half his six-month sentence while Asif, jailed for 12 months, was freed in May.
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Screw Kaneria. Why waste breath on this one.
This is what the ICC is good for, fruitless statements. Kaneria is planning for an appeal and the ICC has already jumped the gun by asking the world to ban him. If there are evidence against kaneria then the ECB and the ICC should present it to the world and then rightly ask the world to ban Kaneria.
Sharad Pawar & Haroon logart (indian descent) both are doing a good job for their country. Malign Pakistan as much as they can. plz ET post my comment!!
Unlike Butt,Asif,Amir, the ECB doesn't have much solid evidence against Kaneria. According to Kaneria's lawyer, they only have Westfield's word against Kaneria so that the Pakistani guy is busted for life while the Englishman is free to play after 3 years. Kaneria should appeal and take his case to the Int'l Court for Sports Arbitration
And what about those who were caught in IPL???