Waugh, Warne to face Pakistani panel in Australia
Posted: Wednesday December 23, 1998 02:00 PM
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Warne made bribery allegations against Pakistan player Salim Malik Stuart Milligan/Allsport |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- The Pakistani inquiry probing
cricket bribery will travel to Australia next month to interview
Australian players Shane Warne and Mark Waugh.
Warne and Waugh made allegations against Pakistan player Salim
Malik in 1994, accusing him of offering them money to play badly.
Australian cricket was rocked this month by revelations of Warne
and Waugh's involvement with an illegal Indian bookmaker during
Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 1994.
Australian Cricket Board chief executive Malcolm Speed said
Wednesday the Lahore-based inquiry, headed by judge Malik Mohammed
Qayyum, would sit in Melbourne on January 8.
The Pakistan inquiry will interview Waugh, Warne and Alan
Crompton, the ACB chairman at the time the allegations against
Salim Malik were made.
Waugh faced the Pakistan inquiry during Australia's tour there
this year.
Speed also announced an independent Australian inquiry into
gambling on cricket will begin January 12. The inquiry will be held in
private.
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