Pakistan: Inquiry Commission summons Warne, Waugh (13 December 1998)

13 December 1998

Pakistan: Inquiry Commission summons Warne, Waugh

By Our Reporter

LAHORE, Dec 12: The Inquiry Commission comprising Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum, probing charges of match fixing and betting against certain cricketer's, on Saturday issued summons for Dec 19 to Australians cricketer's Shane Warne and Mark Waugh.

In a letter addressed to the Australian Cricket Board, the commission's registrar has said that the judge wanted to re-examine Mark Waugh in view of the recent revelations about their accepting money from an Indian bookie for passing out information regarding the wicket and weather conditions.

The commission said it wanted to record the testimony of Shane Warne who did not come to Pakistan when other Australian cricketers recorded statements in Lahore. Pakistan Cricket Board said that it would pay for the fare and hotel accommodation of the two players.

During the day, the court issued summons to an Urdu newspaper and a news agency reporter with regard to a story published in the newspaper.

PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood said that the reporters had wrongly blamed him in their joint-story for asking batsman Amir Sohail to make a wrong statement before the commission.

Asked by the commission to reconcile his statement made before it that he did not have proofs about betting with a converse statement by him published in a newspaper, the PCB chairman said that he was misquoted by the reporter. He said that the published statement was clarified the next day.

Amir Sohail who was summoned for re-examination did not appear before the commission for medical reasons. He requested for two days to appear before the commission. The commission adjourned the proceedings till Dec 16.

Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)