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Bacher tells inquiry of matches fixed in 99 World Cup |
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June 13, 2000
Former senior Pakistani cricket official Majid Khan told South African cricket chief Ali Bacher that two matches of the 1999 World Cup, India-Pakistan and Pakistan-Bangladesh were fixed, Bacher told the King Commission, inquiring into corruption in cricket here on Monday. Majid Khan, former Chief Executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board and a long-standing friend of United Cricket Board of South Africa Managing Director Bacher, told him in Wimbledon, shortly after the World Cup, that the two matches had been fixed. "He didn't indicate to me which team had fixed the game", Bacher told the inquiry. Pakistan lost the two matches. Bacher added that he had again asked Majid Khan, earlier this year, if he was confident of this information and if he was opposed to Bacher revealing it to a International Criket Council meeting in London in May, as well as to the South African Commission of Inquiry into cricket. Majid Khan said he did not oppose Bacher going public and added that he was "confident the information was correct", Bacher told the Edwin King Commission of inquiry Monday. Bacher also said that an Indian bookmaker friend of his, who he identified only as 'Mr R.' had told him that Pakistani umpire Javed Ahktar had been on the pay roll of bookmakers when he umpired the fifth and last Test between England and South Africa in Leeds in 1998. Mr R, whom Bacher met in India during the South African tour earlier this year, told Bacher in February that his sources had confirmed that "the umpire concerned was on the payroll". There were ten leg before wicket decisions in the 1998 match, won by England, nine of them were by Ahktar, eight of them were against the South African team and seven were considered dubious by cricket commentators.
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