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Mark Waugh stalls over Pakistan match-fixing inquiry
AFP
30 December 1998
MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (AFP) - Australian cricketer Mark Waugh is seeking
independent legal advice before agreeing to appear before a Pakistan
judicial inquiry into match-fixing, the Australian Cricket Board said
Wednesday.
However, legspinner Shane Warne and former team manager Alan Crompton
have agreed to to give evidence to the inquiry in public.
``I'm more than happy to do what's required. It will be the same
evidence I gave four years ago,'' Warne said Wednesday.
Waugh, Warne and Crompton have been asked to appear before the
Pakistan commission in Melbourne on January 8 when they will be
questioned about allegations Waugh and Warne were offered money by
former Pakistan captain Salim Malik to lose a match in 1994.
The Pakistan Cricket Board asked for the players to testify again
after it was revealed they took money from an illegal Indian bookmaker
for providing information on weather and pitch conditions during
Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 1994.
The pair were fined by the ACB in February 1995 but the matter was
hushed up until three weeks ago.
Crompton, who was Australian team manager at the time, offered to
testify.
Two days after Waugh, Warne and Crompton are scheduled to give
evidence to the Pakistan commission, the International Cricket Council
will tackle the issue of gambling in the sport at a meeting in
Christchurch, New Zealand, on January 10-11.
The bookmaker scandal involving Waugh and Warne has been placed on the
ICC meeting agenda and a bloc of subcontinent countries -- India,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- will lobby the ICC to slap life bans on the
Australians.
An independent inquiry into gambling in Australian cricket, due to
start on January 12, will seek to interview all Australian cricketers
since 1992.
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