Abdul Qadir to assist probe

The one-man commission probing match-fixing allegations against Pakistani players during the 1999 World Cup has appointed former leg-spinner Abdul Qadir as technical advisor, court sources said Sunday, SADA reports.

"The commission needed someone to back it as expert and we appointed Qadir as our technical advisor," registrar Kazim Ali Malik told SADA.

The commission, headed by Lahore high court judge Justice Karamat Bhandari, was appointed in May this year on the request of Pakistan Cricket Board.

"Qadir will assist the commission whenever some technical matters come to the fore and we will also take advice from him on the video of the matches that were allegedly fixed," Malik said.

The Pakistan team faces allegations of match-fixing in two of the matches it lost in the 1999 World Cup in England.

Pakistan's surprise loss to Bangladesh and India had raised suspicions of match-fixing.

The Bhandari commission has held three hearings. For its next hearing on October 13, it has summoned former captains Majid Khan and Javed Miandad and two former PCB chiefs, Khalid Mahmood and Zafar Altaf. The probe is to be completed in two months.

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--Indo-Asian News Service

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