An appeal made by former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria against a lifetime ban from cricket was rejected by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) at a hearing in London.
Kaneria was given a life ban by the ECB last year after a panel found him guilty of inducing his then Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield to deliberately concede a certain number of runs in return for money in a county match in 2009.
According to an ECB statement, the panel of the ECB's cricket discipline commission upheld the life ban imposed on Kaneria by a disciplinary panel in June 2012 given that it had found that he had been guilty of two charges under the ECB's regulations.
Westfield was jailed and banned for five years.
However, the statement added that Westfield could return to club cricket on April 1 next year if he takes part in a 'stringent' anti-corruption program.
Life-ban imposed by the ECB on Kaneria is effective worldwide as all boards under the jurisdiction of the International Cricket Council (ICC) have agreed to uphold punishments imposed by individual member countries in such circumstances.
Kaneria, who has repeatedly protested his innocence, has now seen two appeals against ECB charges fail after a CDC panel dismissed his case in April.
(with inputs from ANI)
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