News Desk: Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria was found guilty by an England and Wales Cricket Board disciplinary panel of two corruption charges of encouraging and pressurising former Essex team-mate Mervyn Westfield not to play his best in a match in 2009.


Kaneria was convicted of introducing Westfield to bookmakers and bringing the game into disrepute. Westfield pleaded guilty to one charge of corruption. He allegedly accepted £6000 to underperform in a CB 40 match between Essex and Durham.


Their punishments will be pronounced later today once the mitigation was taken into account. Earlier, both players were charged by the ECB in April for "alleged breaches of the ECB's anti-corruption directives.


Earlier, Westfield was sentenced to four months jail in February for spot-fixing offences in 2009.


The players were found guilty a day after former Pakistan player Salman Butt was released from a UK jail after serving seven months of a 30-month sentence for spot-fixing. He was sentenced to jail along with fast bowlers Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir, for the bowling of deliberate no balls in a 2010 Test match against England at Lord's. All the three are facing 5-year bans in the case.

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