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Karachi: Former PCB Chairman Lt General (Retd) Tauqir Zia and former chief selector Abdul Qadir have demanded an inquiry into the presence of some Indians on the same floor where the Pakistan team was staying in a Colombo hotel as rumors about possible match-fixing continued.
"I think it is best if the board carried out independent investigation to find out who these people were so that speculations could be laid to rest and we don't have more match fixing rumors," Zia said.
Qadir noted that it was strange that captain, Younis Khan and manager Yawar Saeed were giving contradictory statements on the issue.
"Younis is saying something else and Yawar the opposite which itself is suspicious to me. The board must hold an inquiry and find out the facts of this whole incident," Qadir said.
Yawar had initially tried to play down the incident and said he couldn't say who the Indians were while Younis had denied anyone had approached them.
Sources in the PCB said the board itself had been surprised when the incident was first reported in the Pakistan media as Yawar had not told them anything about the issue.
What is now confirmed is that they were atleast five Indian nationals staying on the same floor as the players and that two of them are said to have a history of being associated with cricket betting," one source said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ejaz Butt yesterday admitted that some Indians were sharing the same floor with the Pakistan team but said the Indians were shifted to another floor after the Pakistan team manager pointed it out to hotel authorities.
"Our team manager drew the attention of the hotel management to this (presence of Indians) and they shifted those Indian nationals to another floor," Butt told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Sports.
"Our team manager learnt of something that was not right and immediately set the matter right and it is closed now," Butt maintained, refusing to comment on speculations that there were possible bookmakers from Mumbai trying to lure Pakistan cricketers.
The International Cricket Council made it clear it did not want to comment on issues concerning its Anti Corruption Unit but conceded the ACU was aware of the incident.
The source said the ACU security officer in India, Ravi Sawami, is looking into the incident in Sri Lanka since ICC regulation doesn't encourage players to mingle with strangers on tours and during series.
