Essex have been fined 100,000 pounds ($132,190) after admitting to a charge of racism at the county club which they failed to address between 2001 and 2010, England's Cricket Regulator said on Wednesday.
Former Essex County cricketer Mervyn Westfield has been charged with 'conspiracy to defraud' for his role in an alleged rigged County match last year
Police are investigating allegations that two Essex county cricket players were involved in 'match irregularities'. Essex police said they are working closely with the club and the English Cricket Board.
India pacer Khaleel Ahmed on Saturday signed a deal with Essex to play for the remainder of the English County Championship and the entirety of the One-Day Cup.
Thakur also claimed a hat-trick in the match against Meghalaya, in a bid to prove his form and fitness for a national team comeback, with his last appearance being at the 2023 ODI World Cup.
He played just two first-class matches.
Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir will re-join Essex cricket team on Tuesday to play the remainder of his maiden English county season after he returned home for a brief period due to family issues.
Peter Handscomb was forced to miss his county match against Leicestershire in England after testing positive for COVID-19.
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has signed a deal with the Essex County side to play in the second half of the English domestic season, the club said on Tuesday.
Murali Vijay will be playing three matches for Essex in the final phase of the division one of English County Championship, the BCCI announced on Saturday.
A police investigation into suspected 'match irregularities' at Essex county cricket club has stirred unwelcome memories of the match-fixing scandal which rocked the sport a decade ago. The investigation follows rumours of match-fixing in the second Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament staged in South Africa last year and was announced shortly before the third Twenty20 World Cup opens in the Caribbean on Friday.
Indian pacer Umesh Yadav has signed with Division One English County side Essex for the remainder of the 2023 championship.
B Sai Sudharsan signs up for Surrey for County Championship remainder
The former England pacer's first competitive assignment with the Sri Lanka national team will be the upcoming away Test series in Bangladesh.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir, who spent time in jail and served a five-year ban for spot-fixing, will play for English county Essex next season, the club said on Tuesday. Left-arm seamer Amir, who returned to the test arena this year following his suspension, will be available for Essex from June 19. "We are thrilled that Mohammad has decided to join us for half of the 2017 campaign," Essex head coach Chris Silverwood told the club's website.
India batsman Gautam Gambhir has been forced to cut short his stint with Essex due to family reasons but the English county club is hopeful of his return before the end of the season.
Another former player of English county Essex has said he suffered racist abuse at the club following allegations made by Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers in the last week.
The club took into consideration Pujara's ability to bat for long periods.
The former Zimbabwe captain signed a two-year deal at the county as an English-qualified player.
Faf du Plessis pointed out that they were missing out on their best players due to the Kolpak deal.
Monty Panesar is hoping a change of county will help his chances of gaining selection for England's Ashes tour to Australia later in the year.
The club also announced the termination of contracts for its other two overseas players, South African spinner Keshav Maharaj and West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran.
Nottinghamshire police said the 31-year-old suspect, who remains in custody, then went on to stab a man in his 50s to death and also attempted to run over three people - still in hospital - with a van stolen from that man.
A pink cricket ball made its competitive debut in England on Wednesday when Hampshire beat Essex in a floodlit Twenty20 fixture. The match, staged at Hampshire's Rose Bowl, was the first time a match between two English counties had used the luminous ball which is being tested by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the traditional guardians of the laws of cricket.
Pakistan's Danish Kaneria has finally admitted his role in a fixing scandal that led to the imprisonment of former Essex team-mate Mervyn Westfield after six years of denials, Britain's Daily Mail reported.
England's troubled spinner Monty Panesar has been given a suspended one-match ban for threatening and intimidating behaviour towards an opponent, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Friday.
Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin returned impressive figures of five for 59 to help Nottinghamshire bowl out Somerset for 169 in the second innings of the County Championship Division One match n Taunton on Tuesday.
Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, who too were found guilty of spot-fixing like Kaneria, have been allowed back into the PCB fold.
The English club is waiting to see if he gets picked for India for the ODI series involving Australia and the West Indies in Malaysia.
Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's appeal against a life ban from cricket for spot-fixing was dismissed by an England and Wales cricket board disciplinary panel on Tuesday.
Pakistan's banned leg spinner Danish Kaneria has slammed the Pakistani and English cricket authorities after it was announced on Thursday that fast bowler Mervyn Westfield has been allowed to play lower-level cricket with one year of his spot-fixing ban remaining. "If anything, the permission by the England and Wales Cricket Board to allow special treatment to Westfield, confirms their bias and discrimination towards me throughout this case," Kaneria told PTI in Karachi. The ECB anti-corruption tribunal had banned Kaneria for life in 2012 and Westfield was jailed the same year and banned from professional cricket for five years and club cricket for three years on spot fixing charges. Both were banned after they played together for Essex in the English county championship. Westfield claimed in his testimony that he accepted a 6000 pounds to under-perform in a 40-over pro match between Essex and Durham in September 2009. The paceman claimed Kaneria had groomed him to indulge in spot fixing.
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