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Healy no wish to 'dignify' deliberate stumping miss claim
AFP
10 January 1999
BRISBANE, Australia, Jan 10 (AFP) - Experienced Australian
wicketkeeper Ian Healy has declined to respond to a suggestion he may
have deliberately missed a stumping in a one-wicket loss to Pakistan
four years ago.
The Australian wicketkeeper, who broke Rod Marsh's world record of
dismissals in Pakistan last year, said here Sunday he did not wish to
``dignify'' the suggestion by commenting on it.
Pakistani lawyer Azmat Saeed put the claim to former Test spinner Tim
May during the Pakistan judicial commission of inquiry into
match-fixing in Melbourne on Saturday.
The 111-Test campaigner conceded four leg byes from the bowling of
Shane Warne, which gave Pakistan a one-wicket win in the first Test of
the 1994 series, a three-Test series ultimately won 1-0 by the home
side.
Healy previously described that moment as the worst in his cricket
career when the ball from Warne was charged at by Inzamam-ul-Haq,
skidded low off the wicket and through Healy's legs to the boundary.
The umpire ruled leg byes but there were doubts whether the ball
actually clipped the pads of Inzamam on the way through.
Despite Healy's name not being mentioned at the inquiry, the
suggestion drew a sharp reaction from Michael Shatin at the inquiry as
counsel for Mark Waugh, who along with Shane Warne gave evidence to
the panel on Friday.
``I think it's outrageous to make an allegation of that nature without
warning the person against whom the allegation is aimed,'' Shatin said.
When Saeed put the suggestion to May that the match could have been
fixed he replied with ``absolutely not.''
``I've no knowledge of anything being done deliberately,'' May said.
The inquiry legal team returned to Pakistan Sunday ahead of further
hearings on January 16, with a finding expected later this month.
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