Miscellaneous

Test board chief Javed Burki promises `swift action` after studying Australians` sworn affidavits

ILLEGAL bets on cricket and the possibility of tempting cricketers to throw matches has long been an oriental secret

WHEN an adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan steps into the bribery debate you have to take notice, even if it is old Sarfraz Nawaz, more familiar to us as that cunning Northamptonshire opening bowler and former buddy of Allan Lamb

Simon Wilde finds it hard to determine quite how a cricket match could be fixed

KARACHI, Feb

MATCH-RIGGING allegations in international cricket widened yesterday with claims by two more Australian players of approaches from bookmakers offering large bribes for services rendered

On Australia`s visit to Pakistan last October and November, whispered allegations of betting scandals involving the home team were as much a part of the tour as a Wasim Akram yorker or a Shane Warne flipper

PAKISTAN`S troubled tour of southern Africa reached perhaps its lowest point yesterday when the tour manager Intikhab Alam admitted in Zimbabwe all his players had been ordered - prior to leaving home in late November - to take an oath on the

Bogus journalists and shady agents: There have long been rumours of cricket corruption in India and Pakistan

Australia`s tour to the Caribbean should be an absolute ripper

Another Australian test player, Victorian captain Dean Jones, also reportedly revealed Monday that he was offered 66,000 Australian dollars by an Indian bookmaker to provide inside information on his team during the 1992-1993 tour of Sri Lanka

Peter Roebuck in Sydney on match-fixing allegations involving two prominent Australian Test cricketers

The World Masters Cup will be held in Brabourne stadium, Bombay from March 3-12

Indian News Roundup - 10 Feb 95

THE three guys running the England cricket team must carry the can for our latest Ashes debacle

ONE OF the few privileges left to us in this increasingly dotty world is to kick in a television set in the privacy of one`s home