Anti-Corruption Unit probes Shoaib's match-fixing claims
The ICC's Anti-Corruption Security Unit has begun an investigation into the claims of Shoaib Akhtar, who said last week he was offered money to under-perform in matches in South Africa and India
Cricinfo staff
08-Apr-2008
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Sources close to the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed to Cricinfo
that the team had arrived and investigations had begun, though there
confusion remains over whether they have completed their task or are still
here. One source close to the investigation said that the team had already
left, having interviewed several players.
Details of the visit are currently sketchy and the ICC has refused to
confirm or deny the development, maintaining that it does not comment on
the movement of the ACSU. A report in Dawn claimed that the
investigators had spoken to Younis Khan, who was vice-captain and stand-in
captain on Pakistan's last tour to India, and Umar Gul.
The investigation comes after Shoaib told Geo TV last week, "A briefcase
full of money was placed before me and I was asked to under-bowl in a
match at Johannesburg but I refused. Then on tour to India I was offered
money but I again turned it down." Dates were not specified on either
occasion but the ICC said subsequently the claims would be investigated.
The claims came after Shoaib was handed a five-year ban over a series of
breaches of the players' code of conduct, including public criticism of
the PCB. Under its own code of conduct the ICC can ban a player who fails
to disclose any approaches for fixing to his captain or to his team
manager or to a senior board official or to the ICC's officials from one
to five years.