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In Perth in February, 1995.

All the three times, John only inquired about pitch and weather conditions.

After the tour of New Zealand had finished and whilst on the way to West
Indies, he was asked by Alan Crompton, the Chairman, Graham Halbish, the Chief
Executive and Ian McDonald to talk about the bookmaker in Sri Lanka and was
subsequently fined $ 8,000.

On the Pakistan tour in September, 1994, he was called by Malik to his room
in the hotel and was offered US$ 200,000 to throw away the Karachi Test by getting
another bowler Tim May to bowl badly with him. He told Malik to get lost and the
same was the answer by Tim May when told about the offer by Warne. Warne, according
to him, thereafter went back to his room and told May.

Towards the end of October, 1994 at the Presidential function, he heard Salim
Malik offering bribe to Mark Waugh for the One Day match at Rawalpindi.

In February, 1995, he was asked to make a short summary of the incident and
was asked to sign a declaration in April, 1995.

Shane Warne was thereafter cross-examined by Mr. Fazli. The following points
came out of the cross-examination:

Warne denied knowing any one by the name of Saleem Pervez.


He was fined by the ACB without any show cause notice being given. Warne did
not know as to how the information was disclosed to the ACB.
The declaration was made in the hotel room in Antigua. He was asked certain
questions and then they were written down and Warne signed them.
Warne revealed that he was a frequent gambler.
When asked as to why he did not tell Waugh, at the Presidential function,
that he had also been offered money by Salim Malik, Warne replied that he was not
directly involved in the conversation and thought that Mark Waugh must be knowing
it already because majority of the players had information about the incident. This
was so even though he had earlier said he had only disclosed the meeting to Mark
Taylor and Bob Simpson.
When asked as to why he did not tell Mark Taylor the whole incident the same
night he was offered money by Malik, he responded that it was already quite late at
night when Malik called him and by the time this whole episode was over, it was
already midnight. Therefore, he thought that it would be more appropriate to talk
the next day.
He denied having any information regarding the match in Sri Lanka between
Australia and Pakistan in which he was declared Man of the Match.

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