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Essex cricketer Mervyn Westfield pleads guilty to corruption charges
An English county cricketer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a corruption charge linked to his bowling in a 40-over one-day game.
Published: Jan 12, 2012, 05:17 PM (IST)
Edited: Jan 12, 2012, 05:17 PM (IST)
Mervyn Westfield will be sentenced on February 10 © AFP
London: Jan 12, 2012
An English county cricketer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a corruption charge linked to his bowling in a 40-over one-day game.
Mervyn Westfield, 23, who played for Essex, admitted accepting or obtaining a corrupt payment to bowl in a way that would allow the scoring of runs, during a hearing at the Old Bailey in London.
The court heard he had agreed to bowl his first over in a way that would let Durham score a set number of runs in a game in September 2009.
Westfield will be sentenced on February 10.
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