Discarded Pakistani leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has failed to get clearance from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to play for his country.
Kaneria has been embroiled in a spot-fixing case, and is suspected of bowling deliberate no-balls while playing for Essex in a 2009 match.
Though Kaneria is Pakistan’s most successful spinner in Test history, he has not played for the country since last summer.
Keen to revive his career, Kaneria sent the PCB an email from Essex, in which the club thanked him for his services, and explained the reasons why he was not being offered another contract.
But the PCB has rejected it, saying that a ‘clearance’ letter sent by Kaneria has failed to satisfy the board’s Integrity Committee, and that it wants something more concrete.
“PCB today responded the 12th May letter sent by Danish Kaneria,” The News quoted PCB spokesman Nadeem Sarwar, as saying.
“The supporting email he has sent was more than six months old and is already on the records of PCB. After taking legal opinion and after confirming with the ECB, PCB considers that said document fails to satisfy the requirements by PCB,” he added.
The PCB had asked Kaneria to send them a certificate of clearance from Essex following his arrest by London police and eventual release last summer in the spot-fixing case.
“Kaneria has been advised to provide the clearance certificate at the earliest,” Sarwar said.
