Pakistan will come out clean: Inzamam -ul Haq Saturday, September 2 2006 11:14 Hrs (IST) - World Time -
Karachi:
Skipper Inzamam-ul Haq has no doubt that Pakistan will be cleared of the ball tampering charge made by umpire Darrell Hair, whom he accuses of spinning a web of controversy around the team.
"Different stories are circulating after the Oval test fiasco but I have no doubt we will be cleared and the truth will come out soon," Inzamam says.
"Hair laid out a web to involve the Pakistan team in controversy and ball tampering but now it appears he himself is in deep trouble," he says to sources.
"The situation is getting bad for him and his problems are increasing. It looks like he is going to get caught in serious difficulties," he says.
Inzamam was charged with ball tampering and bringing the game into disrepute following the Oval Test forfeiture, the first in the 129-year history of the game.
His fate will be decided at an International Cricket Council disciplinary hearing, the date for which is still to be decided.
However, Hair himself falls in trouble after it is revealed that he has offered to quit his job in return of USD 500,000 from the ICC.