Six Pakistani players under suspicion for Sydney Test
According to former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Zia said that the ICC had told the PCB about their suspicions and that those six needed to be watched closely.
Zia claimed on Pakistani television that the ICC had the above information through some of the text messages that they intercepted.
He added: "I know the ICC had told the PCB this year to monitor these players because they had got hold of some SMS messages these players exchanged with suspected bookmakers."
"[The] ICC approached the PCB after the Australian tour and warned them to keep a watch on these players as they went for the Twenty20 World Cup and Asia Cup," he said.
Zia said that he had no idea on how the PCB reacted to the ICC warning. He also said that he was ready to talk to the ICC or PCB if they wanted to discuss about the above issue.
Zia, who was the PCB chief in the early part of 2000 said that the issue of match-fixing was long-standing and that he had also been approached by an alleged illegal bookmaker to select a particular cricketer.
He said that he had declined to do so and in the end, the cricketer never played for Pakistan again.
Explaining why the PCB did not do anything about it, Zia said: "But we did not make a big deal out of it since that player had already been hauled up earlier."
Pakistan's match against Australia saw the Pakistani team take a commanding lead and then dramatically fall apart, with Australia winning by 36 runs.
Pakistan cricket had already hit rock-bottom when three of its cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, were provisionally suspended by the ICC for alleged spot-fixing. Their hearing will
be on 31 October in Doha in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986.
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