ACB rules out review of Warne-Waugh case

SYDNEY, MAY 5. The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) ruled today out a review of the case of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh who were fined five years ago for providing weather and pitch information to bookmakers.

The two were sanctioned after supplying the information during Australia's 1994 tour of Sri Lanka but the matter was not made public until December, 1998.

The ACB chief executive, Mr. Malcolm Speed, said there would be no review as Warne and Waugh had already been tried.

The ACB formally adopted the International Cricket Council's (ICC) mandatory life bans on players found guilty of match- fixing, announced on Wednesday after an emergency ICC meeting at Lord's.

In a statement the ACB also said it would convene a conference with the leaders of Australia's other major sports to identify common strategies to tackle corruption in sport.

The Australian captain Steve Waugh said he supported the initiatives which he hoped would help restore the game's credibility after the Hansie Cronje scandal.

``Any threats to the integrity of our game needs to be tackled aggressively,'' Waugh said. ``I hope these initiatives start to re-build any trust in the game that may have been lost and that people recognise that players and administrators are united in the determination to keep this evil out of our game.''

- Reuters

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