Anti-corruption unit looks into Pakistan tour 21/05/2010 |
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The International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit is investigating Pakistan’s performance on its tour of Australia.
Pakistan lost every match on the tour – three Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 contest – and a leaked tape is said to show tour officials saying the defeat in the second Test was not just poor play.
Lord Paul Condon, chairman of the anti-corruption unit, said: "We are satisfied that was a totally dysfunctional tour."
The whitewash prompted the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to hold its own investigation.
The board banned former captain Younus Khan and Australia tour captain Mohammad Yousuf for an indefinite period, while former captain Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan were banned for one year and fined heavily. Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal were also fined heavily.
But the PCB said there had been no match-fixing and that the players had been banned and fined for "infighting and breach of discipline".
Condon told a press conference at Lord's on Thursday (May 20): “It is a match and series that worried us. We spent a lot of time talking to the players and PCB. The challenge is finding where is the solid fact.
"What you have there is a lot of strife within the team and Pakistan politics with rivals camps making allegations.
"The dysfunctionality in the dressing room led to players not performing well, to maybe players potentially underperforming deliberately."
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