'Records to go if found guilty'

JOHANNESBURG, MAY 14. The South African Cricket Board will delete match results and individual averages from the record books if its Commission of Inquiry into cricket match-fixing finds concrete evidence of wrongdoing against players, a top Board official has said.

``If it is proved conclusively that an individual has been involved in wrongdoing in our local national matches, then that match would be scratched from the record books,'' Brian Basson, UCB's head of playing affairs has said.

Basson hoped the International Cricket Council (ICC) would also follow suit by deleting performances in international games if players are found guilty of corrupt practices.

The match-fixing scandal has been raging ever since the Delhi police named sacked South African skipper Hansie Cronje in their sensational match-fixing case registered last month. The South African judicial inquiry commission into match-fixing meanwhile has started conducting initial investigations and was collecting relevant information ahead of starting its paper work.

John Bacon of the justice department, secretary to the commission headed by retired judge Edwin King, said: ``We will start our public hearings as soon as the logistics are put into place.'' The panel will conduct its hearings at its offices in Cape Town, he added.

- PTI

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