Pak to probe World Cup allegations
Pakistan is to probe allegations of match-fixing during the 1999 World Cup, International Cricket Council president Malcom Gray said on Saturday.
"We have just had a report from Pakistan that a judicial inquiry will be carried out on two matches in the World Cup," Gray told a news conference on Saturday.
Ali Bacher, president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, said in June last year he had been told that Pakistan's defeat by Bangladesh and the loss against India were fixed.
Bacher's claim that former Pakistani umpire Javed Akhtar took money from an illegal bookmaker to influence a Test between England and South Africa at Leeds in 1998 will also be investigated, Gray said.
England won the match, and with it the five-Test series 2-1, although several of Akhtar's eight leg-before decisions against South Africa were considered dubious at the time.
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