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Pakistan constitutes match-fixing commission

Pakistan Cricket Board today constituted a commission to assess recommendations made in the Qayyum report on match-fixing and ways to plug the practice.

"PCB has appointed Naveed Rasool to assess the recommendations of Justice Qayyum and has given the one-man commission the full investigative powers," PCB Director (operations) Yawar Saeed told AFP.

PCB implemented the Qayyum report - released in May - banning former captain Salim Malik and Ata-ur Rehman for life and fining several others including all-rounder Wasim Akram.

Qayyum made several other recommendations on how to plug bribery and match-fixing.

"PCB was a party so we have appointed a neutral man to assess the recommendations of the report," Saeed said. "But this doesn't mean we have reopened any inquiry, the task was completed by Justice Qayyum."

Rasool, a PCB legal advisor, is also a senior official of the army-led National Accountability Bureau set up by military rulers. His commission will also discuss the implications of a legal challenge by any aggrieved player, Saeed said, adding he "will come back to PCB with his report."

PCB has already issued show-cause notices to Malik and Rehman, he added.

Saeed said he was also waiting for a contract on match-fixing from the International Cricket Council. "As decided in ICC meeting in June this year all players will have to sign a contract not to indulge in match-fixing. All the Pakistani players will sign the contract," he said.

AFP

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