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Shane Warne says match-fixers should be expelled from cricket |
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April 19, 2000
LONDON, APR 18 (AP) - Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, fined last year for providing pitch and team details to a bookmaker, said anyone found guilty of match-fixing should be barred from cricket. Warne, who joined the English county side Hampshire on Tuesday, called on South Africa's former captain Honsie Cronje to make a full admission concerning the match-fixing allegations leveled against him. "Hansie needs to come out and tell us exactly what has happened," Warne said in Tuesday's The Times newspaper. "That would be best for himself, the rest of the players and the sport itself. I am also convinced that anybody found guilty of match-fixing should not be in the game. I don't know anyone else who would disagree." The Australian Cricket Board last year fined Warne and teammate Mark Waugh for providing pitch and team details to an Indian bookmaker. Waugh was fined dlrs 6,500 and Warne dlrs 5,200 for accepting dlrs 3,900 dollars and dlrs 3,250, respectively, from the bookmaker. Both
players admitted to being "stupid and naive" for getting
involved with the bookmaker, but denied any involvement in match-fixing. |
