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Taylor, Waugh to testify

Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor and batsman Mark Waugh will give evidence before Pakistan's inquiry into a bribery and match-fixing scandal, an official said.

Australian Cricket Board spokesman Patrick Keane told the media that Taylor, Waugh and ACB chief executive Mal Speed will face the hearing in Lahore sometime late on Tuesday evening.

Lahore high court registrar Abdus Salam asked Taylor and Waugh to appear.

The Australian team finished the first Test in Rawalpindi yesterday and were flying to Lahore today.

Waugh and two other players not on the current tour, namely Shane Warne and Tim May, had alleged that Pakistan Test player Salim Malik tried to bribe them to play badly on Australia's 1994 tour of Pakistan. Taylor was captain during the tour.

Salam had sent a letter last week asking the pair to appear before the commission headed by Justice Malik Qayyam to explain the bribery allegations.

Waugh, Warne and May wrote affidavits about the alleged bribery attempt soon after the matter became public in 1995, but they had refused to fly to Pakistan for hearings.

Warne, who is absent from the current tour because of injury, said in Sydney that he did not expect he would go to Pakistan for hearings.

"We sent signed affidavits the last time and we got called liars, so I'm not about to rush back to testify when I've already said that and I was called a liar by a judge,'' Warne said.

UNI