Majid Khan confirms World Cup
matches were fixed: AFP
Former Pakistani cricket official Majid Khan confirmed Monday he told South African cricket chief Ali Bacher that two matches during the 1999 World Cup were fixed.
"Whatever Bacher has stated about me is correct and I stand by his statement that those matches were fixed," Khan told AFP.
"I do not want to add anything except that I did speak to him about these matches having been fixed," the ex-chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board said. "Whatever Bacher has stated is true."
Earlier the South African cricket chief told an inquiry into corruption in cricket at Cape Town that Khan told him the Pakistan matches against India and Bangladesh during the last World Cup were rigged.
"He didn't indicate to me which team had fixed the game," Bacher, the United Cricket Board of South Africa managing director, told the inquiry.
Pakistan lost both matches, most sensationally against lowly-ranked Bangladesh.
Bacher also said that an Indian bookmaker friend of his, who he identified as "Mr R" had told him that Pakistani umpire Javed Akhter had been on the payroll of bookmakers when he umpired the fifth and last test between South Africa and England in Leeds in 1998. Akhtar has denied these allegations in the past.
Pakistan last month imposed life bans on former skipper Salim Malik and former paceman Ata-ur Rehman and fined six other cricketers, including Wasim Akram, on the basis of the findings of a judicial inquiry into match-fixing.
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