Mark Waugh will be omitted from the Australian cricket team unless he reconsiders his position on being interviewed by anti-corruption investigators before 4pm tomorrow.

ACB chief executive Malcolm Speed says the board of directors has written to Waugh imploring him to submit to the interview process."

Speed says Waugh has until tomorrow's deadline to give a written undertaking to the ACB that he'll submit to the interview, planned for early next month in Australia.

Speed refused to put a time frame on the duration of any ban.

Waugh's management announced two days ago that he would refuse to meet with ACB special investigator Greg Melick and the International Cricket Council anti-corruption unit following an Indian police report last October which looked into allegations of match-fixing.

Waugh was named in that report and alleged to have received $A36,300 from an Indian bookmaker in return for team information.

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