A list no one would want to be in

CHENNAI, MAY 24. Quite a few matches involving India and Pakistan have been mentioned by players, administrators, team officials, journalists and bookmakers as being subjected to match fixing and betting during the CBI, Justice Qayyum and Kings Commission inquires held in India, Pakistan and South Africa respectively.

These figure prominently in Sir Paul Condon's report submitted to the ICC on Wednesday with the rider that, ``inclusion on this list does not necessarily indicate that a match was fixed.''

The matches that cast suspicion and were subjected to debate were:

1979-80 India v Pakistan Calcutta Test; 1987-88 Australia v Pakistan Lahore one-day; 1990-91 Delhi v Bombay Delhi Ranji; 1991-92 Wills XI v Habib Bank Delhi one-dayer; Two of India's games in B&H World Series in Australia; 1992 England v Pakistan Nottingham one-dayer; 1992-93 India v England Calcutta Test, India v England Bangalore one-dayer, India v England Gwalior one- dayer; 1993-94 India v Sri Lanka Lucknow Test, New Zealand v Pakistan Christchurch Test, New Zealand v Pakistan Christchurch one-dayer, India v Pakistan Sharjah one-dayer; 1994-95 Australia v Pakistan Colombo one-dayer, Sri Lanka v India Colombo one- dayer, Pakistan v Australia Karachi Test, Pakistan v Australia Rawalpindi one-dayer, India v West Indies Kanpur one- dayer, South Africa v Pakistan Cape Town one-dayer, South Africa v Pakistan Johannesburg one-dayer; 1995-96 India v Pakistan Bangalore one-dayer, Pakistan v Sri Lanka Singapore one- day; 1996-97 India v Australia Delhi Test, India v South Africa Rajkot one-dayer, India v South Africa Mumbai one- dayer, India v South Africa Ahmedabad Test, India v South Africa Calcutta Test, India v South Africa Mumbai one-dayer, South Africa v India Durban Test, South Africa v India Cape Town Test, South Africa v India Johannesburg Test, West Indies v India Barbados Test; 1997-98 Sri Lanka v Pakistan Colombo one-dayer, Sahara Cup Toronto one-dayer 1999, Pakistan v India Karachi one-dayer, Pakistan v South Africa Faisalabad Test, Pakistan v Sri Lanka Lahore one-dayer, England v Pakistan Sharjah one-dayer, India v New Zealand Sharjah one- dayer; 1998 England v South Africa Leeds Test; 1998-99 India v Pakistan Jaipur one-dayer, England v Pakistan Sharjah one-dayer; 1999 India v Zimbabwe Leicester one-dayer, Bangladesh v Pakistan Northampton one-dayer, India v Pakistan Manchester one-dayer; 1999-2000 Challenger Series between India, India A and India B (CBI), India v New Zealand Ahmedabad Test, South Africa v England Centurion Test, One-day series between South Africa, England and Zimbabwe, India v South Africa Mumbai Test, India v South Africa Bangalore Test, India v South Africa Nagpur one-dayer.

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