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Chronology of match-fixing scandal
Updated: Wednesday May 23, 2001 5:14 AM LONDON (Reuters) -- Chronology of the international match-fixing scandal since a Pakistan judicial panel first convened in 1998: October 1998 -- Judicial inquiry starts in Lahore under Judge Malik Qayyum into allegations that Pakistan test players Salim Malik, Ijaz Ahmed and Wasim Akram helped fix matches. Australia captain Mark Taylor, whose team is touring Pakistan, tells inquiry that teammates Shane Warne and Tim May were offered money to bowl badly on its last tour in 1994-95. Mark Waugh says Malik approached him before a one-day match on the same tour asking whether he could find four or five players willing to throw the match. December 8 -- Australian Cricket Board (ACB) admits it secretly fined Waugh and Shane Warne in February 1995 for giving what it called routine pitch and weather details to bookmakers during Australia's 1994 tour of Sri Lanka. Both players say they were "naive and stupid" but deny giving information on team line-ups or tactics.
1999January 3 -- Akram reinstated as captain of Pakistan. January 8 -- Pakistan inquiry reconvenes in Melbourne and hears evidence from Waugh and Warne. Warne says Malik had approached him during the first test in Pakistan in 1994-5 and offered him money to bowl poorly to ensure a drawn match. July -- Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif calls on government's accountability bureau to investigate national team after crushing World Cup final defeat by Australia. Akram, Malik and Ahmed banned from playing for Pakistan until cleared by the inquiry. September 13 -- PCB chairman Mujeeb Rahman Khan tells news conference Akram, Malik and Ahmed have been reinstated. Justice Qayyum says he is still compiling report, which has yet to be released.
2000April 7 -- Delhi's Joint Commissioner of Police K.K. Paul charges South Africa captain Hansie Cronje and teammates Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje with involvement in match-fixing during a one-day series against India in March. The four deny the charges. April 11 -- Cronje sacked as captain for three-match one-day series against Australia after admitting he had not been "entirely honest" in his denials of match-fixing. United Cricket Board of South Africa managing director Ali Bacher tells a news conference Cronje had accepted US$10-15,000 from a local South African and an Indian bookmaker based in London during a triangular series with Zimbabwe and England in January. Bacher said he understood it was for providing information and forecasting but Cronje continued to deny match-fixing. April 12 -- Sanjeev Chawla, the Indian bookmaker named in the scandal, denies ever meeting Cronje. April 13 -- Cronje issues statement repeating denial of match-fixing. Former Board for Cricket Control in India head Inderjit Singh Bindra says three Indian cricketers had admitted to him they had placed bets on a match in England several years ago. April 17 -- International Cricket Council president Jagmohan Dalmiya announces emergency meeting at Lord's on May 2-3. April 28 -- Indian government orders country's highest police authority, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to conduct official investigation into match-fixing. May 2 -- ICC clear Dalmiya of corruption allegations on first day of emergency meeting. Chief executive David Richards reads a statement saying Dalmiya had not been involved in negotiating televison rights for the 1998 ICC knockout tournament in Dhaka. May 3 -- On second day of emergency meeting Dalmiya announces life bans for anyone found guilty of match-fixing. ICC agree to set up an Anti-Corruption Investigation authority and all players and officials are asked to sign a declaration saying whether or not they had been asked to take part in any corrupt activity. Kapil Dev says he will take libel action against former India all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar who has accused him of involvement in match-fixing. May 5 -- ACB rule out review into Warne-Waugh case. May 7 -- Dalmiya says ICC presidents in future will not be involved in financial negotiations. May 22 -- ACB says it will investigate allegations by Salim Malik that Australians were involved in match-fixing during 1994 tour of Pakistan. May 23 -- ICC ask for copies of tape recordings of Malik allegations. May 24 -- Malik and all-rounder Ata-ur Eehman banned for life after PCB chairman Taurir Zia releases Qayyum report. Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar censured and fined. Qayyum says there was no planned betting or match-fixing "but doubts of varying intensity have been cast on the integrity of some members of the team in their individual capacity." May 25 -- Malik says he will go to court to challenge ban. June 2 -- Cronje hands confession to King commission which says "in a moment of stupidity and weakness, I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me." June 7 -- Former South Africa off-spinner Pat Symcox tells inquiry he rejected an offer by a "current international" whom he declines to name to throw a match. June 8 -- Gibbs admits accepting US$15,000 from Cronje on the understanding he will score less than 20 in the fifth one-day international against India at Nagpur in March. He says his room mate Henry Williams agreed to accept a similar sum to concede 50 runs from 10 overs. Gibbs hit 74 and said he did not receive any money while Williams did not complete his bowling spell. June 9 -- Gibbs dropped for South Africa tour of Sri Lanka. June 10 -- Bacher says former Pakistan Board chief executive Majid Khan told him some 1999 World Cup matches had been fixed. Cronje offered immunity from prosecution in South Africa if he is "absolutely honest". June 15 -- Cronje submits statement to inquiry admitting to taking four bribes. He says he received money from a man who was introduced to him by former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin. June 16 -- Azharuddin denies Cronje's allegation. June 17 -- An affadavit signed by a Cape Town businessman claims former West Indies captain Brian Lara received cash during a 1993 one-day tournament in South Africa. Lara issues a denial. June 26 -- Former London metropolitan police chief Sir Paul Condon named as head of ICC's anti-corruption body. July 21 -- Indian tax officials say they have found evidence of undisclosed incomes by Azharuddin, Ajay Adeja and Kapil Dev. Aug 11 -- King submits interim report to Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde Balfour. Aug 19 -- Gibbs and Williams formally plead guilty before USB disciplinary committee to agreeing to accept money from Cronje. Aug 28 -- Gibbs and Williams are banned from international cricket for six months retrospectively from June 30 to December 31. Oct 9 -- Pakistan Cricket Board asks for judicial investigation into allegations of match-fixing at 1999 World Cup. Oct 11 -- South Africa United Cricket Board ban Cronje for life. Oct 16 --Condom rules out amnesty for match fixers at ICC meeting in Nairobi. Nov 1 -- Indian Central Bureau of Investigation report accuses Azharuddin of fixing matches but exonerates Kapil Dev. The report says bookmaker M.K. Gupta offered or paid money to nine non-Indian players including former West Indies' skipper Brian Lara, former England captain Alec Stewart and Australia batsman Mark Waugh. Australia's Dean Jones, South Africa's Hansie Cronje, Sri Lanka's Aravinda d'Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga, New Zealand's Martin Crowe and Pakistan's Salim Malik are also named in the report. Nov 23 -- Azharuddin denies match-fixing. "This is all wrong. I have done nothing of the kind," he says. Nov 28 -- Indian cricket board announces the fate of five India test players, including Azharuddin, will be announced on December 5. Dec 5 -- Indian cricket board announces life ban against Azharuddin and former test player Ajay Sharma. Ajay Jadeja and Manoj Prabhakar are handed five-year suspensions, but a fifth Indian player named in the CBI report, Nayan Mongia, is cleared.
2001Jan 22 -- Mark Waugh declines to be interviewed by Anti-Corruption Unit or ACB about the Indian Bureau of Investigation into corruption. He later agrees when presented with details of the investigation. Feb 5 -- King Commission postponed again from its revised resumption date of February 19 after Cronje's lawyers refer to a Constitutional Court ruling saying a judge can not also be in charged of a special investigative unit. May 23 -- First report of Condon inquiry released. Condon says corruption still prevalent in the game and speaks about a "conspiracy of silence." The report says corruption began in England in the 1970s and proliferated during the 1980s and 1990s through organized betting on televised one-day matches. No individuals are named.
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