Warne and Waugh happy to testify.Australian Test stars Mark Waugh Mark Edward Waugh, AM (born June 2, 1965 in Sydney) is a former Australian cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, and made his One-Day International debut in 1988. and Shane Warne Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) is an international Australian cricketer, generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers ever [1]. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century. will testify before a Pakistani judicial inquiry into match fixing Match fixing or game fixing in organized sports occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident will be referred to as race fixing. and bribery in Melbourne on Friday.Australian Cricket Board (ACB ACB American Council of the Blind ACB Asia Commercial Bank ACB America's Community Bankers ACB Adjusted Cost Base ACB Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay ACB Amphibious Construction Battalion (US Navy) ACB Australian Cricket Board ) chairman Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Rogers revealed that 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 trip. Waugh gave evidence to the inquiry in Lahore last October but did not divulge his links with the illegal bookmaker. |
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