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\nFormer Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has admitted his role in a spot-fixing case involving former Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield on Thursday, more than six years after he was banned by the England and Wales Cricket Board .<\/p>\n
Westfield was jailed for four months after pleading guilty to accepting a payment to concede a set number of runs off an over in a 40-overs English county match against Durham in 2009. Kaneria, who had repeatedly denied any involvement in trying to engineer particular situations in a game, was banned for life by the ECB in June 2012 for \u201ccajoling and pressurising\u201d Westfield into accepting money.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy name is Danish Kaneria and I admit that I was guilty of the two charges brought against me by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2012,\u201d the 37-year-old said. \u201cI have become strong enough to make this decision, because you cannot live a life with lies,\u201d he added. \u201cI want to apologise to Mervyn Westfield, my Essex teammates, my Essex cricket club, my Essex cricket fans. I say sorry to Pakistan,\u201d Kaneria added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the ECB and ICC and other bodies would give me a second chance I can help to educate young people in cricket, teach them that if you do wrong you are finished like me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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