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ICC issues questionnaire as Pakistan players are investigated further Staff and Agencies - 18 October 2000
The ICC are attempting to stamp out any future match-fixing problems by issuing a questionnaire to all international cricketers, umpires and officials. The declaration will remain confidential, but must be signed by 30th November. It consists of the following five questions: 1. Have you taken part in, or been approached to take part in, any arrangement with any other person involved in the playing or administration of the game of cricket which might involve corruption in any from? 2. Have you for personal reward or for some other person's benefit agreed, or been approached, in advance of or during a match to act in deliberate breach of the Laws of Cricket, the ICC Standard Playing Conditions, the ICC Code of Conduct or contrary to the spirit of the game of cricket? 3. Have you for personal reward or for some other person's benefit agreed, or been approached, to give information concerning the weather, the ground, team selection, the toss or the outcome of any match or any event in the course of a match or any event in the course of a match other than to a newspaper or broadcaster and disclosed in advance to your Board? 4. Have you ever for personal reward or for some other person's benefit, deliberately played, or agreed to play or been approached to play, below your normal standard, or encouraged any other person to play below his normal standard, in order to contrive an event during the course of a match? 5. Have you for personal reward or for some other person's benefit been involved, or approached, in an attempt to pervert the normal outcome of a match? In a separate development Lord Griffiths, chairman of the code of conduct commission of the ICC, has been asked to make further recommendations about the punishments dealt out to the players implicated in the Qayyum Report. The five players are: Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar and Waqar Younis. The outcome of his findings will decide whether the players are available to face England in the approaching one-day and Test series. Griffiths will speak to sources in Pakistan and gather "further confidential information" as soon as possible. His interim report states that the Pakistan Board "intends to pursue a policy of no tolerance to corruption."
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