CricInfo reports on the aftermath of Herschelle Gibbs evidence to the Indian police, who are continuing their probe into the match-fixing controversy that surrounded the Indian and South African teams a few years back. Gibbs spoke to Indian police last week, and his evidence has prompted the Indians to speak to UK police regarding some matches in the 1999 World Cup, held in England. Their interest seems to be focussed on the matches between Pakistan and Bangladesh, at that time still an Associate side, Pakistan and India, and South Africa and Zimbabwe.
It should be pointed out that no Zimbabwean players are currently under investigation.
CricInfo - Delhi police probe match-fixing in England World Cup
UPDATE: Bob Woolmer, who was South Africa's coach at the time, has responded to comments about the Zimbabwe win in his column at CricInfo:
Our travel plans [ahead of that game] were poor and we stayed in a hotel miles out of town. The dressing-rooms at Chelmsford are too small for touring teams and the net bowlers were poor at practice. A lot of small things started to conspire against our preparation.
By the time the Zimbabwe game arrived we were all pretty ratty. That, more than any other reason, was why we did not perform to our best. Also, in those days Zimbabwe were a good team and not the complete underdogs they are now. They were quite capable of beating anyone in the tournament. There was no question of any betting or bookie involvement that I knew about.
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