Mervyn Westfield Is A ****

[BoyBrumby]

Ooh Caucasians fix **** too! How life-affirming!

Edit: err, he's black

Lol.

Kudos for bringing in the racial angle tho. Classy.

 

[smash84]

Westfield got less but he failed to reach his set limits.

This is so silly.

Because he tried his best and still didn't reach his target he should be treated as less of a criminal

 

[Spikey]

less people had an interest - both financially and you know just caring - in this case than the Amir/Asif/Butt case so i'm happy enough with a tad less time.



like, i'm pretty sure if the president of the united states committed some corruption and the mayor of your ****ty little town committed the same amount of corruption.

 

[fredfertang]

This is so silly.

Because he tried his best and still didn't reach his target he should be treated as less of a criminal

Shouldn't really describe him as a criminal, to my mind that word implies a level of guile or cunning that seems to be totally lacking in Westfield

 

[fredfertang]

less people had an interest - both financially and you know just caring - in this case than the Amir/Asif/Butt case so i'm happy enough with a tad less time.

Its no deterrent though, particularly as it seems his co-conspirator has given an object lesson in how to get away with it

 

[BoyBrumby]

I don't know if judges can use it as a factor in determining the length of a sentence, but from his summing up in the case of the Pakistani test players Mr Justice Cooke alluded to his belief that it wasn't the first time any of them had been involved in anything untoward.

I'm only guessing here, but this instance may have been a one-off for Westfield.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

But there was no evidence of prior involvement for Amir and co, just like Westfield. So how can they be given a longer sentence for it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

But there was no evidence of prior involvement for Amir and co, just like Westfield. So how can they be given a longer sentence for it.

Well, as the judge refused to accept his guilty plea on the basis that he'd didn't believe that this was Amir's first involvement, I think it's fair to guess there was something that pointed towards it.

Judges don't usually make stuff up.

 

[fredfertang]

You can't pick up a greater sentence just because a Judge thinks you've committed other offences that, by implication you've got away with. It happens of course, they just have to dress it up a bit, unlike magistrates who can be daft enough to say that's what they are doing, in which case they get their knuckles gently rapped by the higher courts and have to have extra training on how to stick the boot in without getting appealed.

 

[Furball]

cricinfo's plagarism continues:

Rewind: Match-fixing in English domestic cricket | Regulars | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[sledger]

But there was no evidence of prior involvement for Amir and co, just like Westfield. So how can they be given a longer sentence for it.

Rigging aspects of a Test match which is watched globally is ultimately more serious than rigging aspects of a CC match which is watched by one man and his dog.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Kaneria "not cleared" say ICC, ECB & PCB

From cricinfo.

Interesting read. Danesh's pants are clearly ablaze just now. I wonder if there's sufficient grounds for a ban, even if not for a conviction.

 

[Fusion]

At the very least, he shouldn't be playing domestic cricket (much less captaining) in Pakistan until he's cleared.

 

[Jono]

Ironic that Kaneria, the guy who had catches dropped off his bowling in the suspicious Sydney test, is also quite possibly a fixer.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Kamran Akmal and Danish Kenaria, what a pair these two make. One bowls, the other drops, we feel sorry for both until we find out that they were most likely fixing.

They look like twins as well.

 

[benchmark00]

Kaneria was a dick to the crowd in that Sydney test also.

**** bloke.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

So, Westfield told Tony Palladino about his spot fixing and Palladino blew the lid on it. Good on him. Both fringe Essex cricketers at the time for whom a few thousand would have been big money, but one of them wasn't having a bar of it. More than can be said for many, by the sounds of it though.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

AFAIC the fact that he failed should be irrelevant.

Think we should discuss Herschelle Gibbs' prowess in this area, personally.

 

[four_or_six]

So, Westfield told Tony Palladino about his spot fixing and Palladino blew the lid on it. Good on him. Both fringe Essex cricketers at the time for whom a few thousand would have been big money, but one of them wasn't having a bar of it. More than can be said for many, by the sounds of it though.

Not sure the guy should get massive credit for telling a couple of junior team mates about it, going abroad to play cricket, and six months later the rumours get to the captain/coach. I mean, it's good he didn't also take the money but I'm sure he should have actually told someone in an official capacity at the club/ECB/ICC what was going on.

Obviously loads of other Essex players are culpable too, it seems as though everyone had an inkling and they just didn't want to spoil the fact Kaneira was winning loads of matches.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Not sure the guy should get massive credit for telling a couple of junior team mates about it, going abroad to play cricket, and six months later the rumours get to the captain/coach. I mean, it's good he didn't also take the money but I'm sure he should have actually told someone in an official capacity at the club/ECB/ICC what was going on.

Obviously loads of other Essex players are culpable too, it seems as though everyone had an inkling and they just didn't want to spoil the fact Kaneira was winning loads of matches.

Humph. The usual trusty source of the BBC failed to provide this additional detail.