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| December 4, 2001 | Tuesday | Ramazan 18, 1422 |
Commission summons Sohail, Basit
KARACHI, Dec 3: Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail, batsman Basit Ali and international player Salim Pervez have been summoned by the match-fixing commission in the eastern border city of Lahore, court sources said Monday.
The one-man commission of Justice Karamat Bhandari is probing into Pakistan’s defeats against Bangladesh and India in the 1999 World Cup held in England.
The Bhandari commission will hold its tenth hearing on Dec 8 at the Lahore High Court. Although Sohail, who has played 47 Tests and 156 One-day Internationals for Pakistan, was not a part of the 1999 World Cup squad, he accused teammates of match-fixing in 1995.
Basit, who represented the country in 19 Tests and 50 one-day games until 1996, was one of two players to stage a walkout during the team’s tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Ali and another former captain Rashid Latif refused to represent the team which was then led by banned Salim Malik. Rashid later told a match-fixing commission that Malik and some other fellow players were involved in match-fixing.
Pervez, who has played one limited-over game for Pakistan, has been allegedly involved in bookmaking.
He is accused of brokering deals between players and bookmakers.
The Bhandari commission, formed in May this year, is asked to submit a report to the government by January 15. The inquiry was initiated after South African official Dr. Ali Bacher told a commission in South Africa that Pakistan played two fixed games in the 1999 World Cup. —SADA
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