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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.

Dean Jones told the Sydney Morning Herald he had been approached by a bookmaker who boasted of having at least five international cricketers in his pay. "I refused the offer straight away," Jones said, adding that he had reported it immediately to team officials. "It was not an offer to fix a game. He just wanted an Australian player on his book to offer information as to the likely 12th man, the state of the pitch or the fitness of players," he said.