Border: Allegations against Aussies are 'wild innuendo'

BRISBANE, JUNE 14. Former Australian skipper Allan Border today said allegations against Australians stemming from a South African match-fixing inquiry were `wild innuendo.'

Border said he was confident but `not 100 per cent certain' that no Australian players were involved in match fixing. Allegations against Australians emerged at the Cape Town inquiry set up to investigate Cronje and illegal gambling in cricket. Speaking after he carried the Olympic flame here on day seven of the Sydney 2000 Olympics torch relay, Border said a spate of recent match-fixing claims had damaged cricket.

``You'd have to say there's certain things going on at present that makes you certainly wonder how far it has gone and how far goes back it goes,'' he said. ``I'm very disappointed that the whole thing has come to this and I'm just praying that Australians aren't involved. ``Hopefully we've got enough pride and passion ... to not get involved in that sort of stuff.''

- AP

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