Pakistan cricket board suspended after fiasco

Sun, 18 Jul 1999 | Source: AFP

KARACHI (AFP): The Pakistan Cricket Board was suspended by the government on Friday over the World Cup fiasco in which Pakistan was accused of deliberately losing the final to Australia.

President Mohammad Rafiq Tarrar, who is also patron of the board, replaced the management team with a two-member ad hoc committee headed by Mujeeb-ur Rehman.

Rehman is a brother of Senator Saif-ur Rehman, chairman of the government's Accountability Bureau which is investigating charges against players involved in last month's World Cup one-day tournament in England. The other member of the committee is Javed Zaman, a cousin of former cricket hero Imran Khan.

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