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Australian Test stars to testify before Pakistan bribery inquiry
AFP
4 January 1999
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan 4 (AFP) - Australian cricket stars Mark
Waugh and Shane Warne will testify before a Pakistani judicial inquiry
into match fixing and bribery here on Friday, cricket officials said
Monday.
Australian Cricket Board (ACB) chairman Denis Rogers said the two
players, along with former Australian team manager Alan Crompton, were
happy for their evidence to be heard in public.
Waugh, one of Australia's top Test batsmen, and leg-spinner Warne were
secretly fined by the ACB in February 1995 when they admitted selling
pitch and weather information to an illegal Indian bookmaker.
The Pakistan inquiry team sought to interview Warne and Waugh after
they apologised for taking money from the bookmaker during Australia's
tour of Sri Lanka in 1994 when Crompton was team manager.
Rogers said he was uncertain whether former Pakistan captain Salim
Malik or his lawyers would attend Friday's hearing although Pakistan
court officials in Lahore said Malik had nominated lawyer Azmat Baig
to question the Australians.
Waugh, Warne and former Test spinner Tim May have alleged Malik
attempted to bribe them to throw a match on Australia's tour of
Pakistan that followed the Sri Lankan tour.
Waugh gave evidence to the inquiry in Lahore last October but did not
divulge his links with the illegal bookmaker.
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