Pak judge will blow whistle

The probe report, completed six months ago, has been gathering dust in an official locker, but last week the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the PCB had just five weeks to make the contents of the report public.

According to the news report, it is feared that in the five-week period, certain parts of it may be deleted or watered down.

Qayyum, however, said if this were to happen, he would step forward and say so.

“It can’t be watered down. The report is final. I have a sealed copy with me and if they change it then everybody would know,” he said.

“If they change the report, I will then make it public,” Qayyum, who has one of the three copies, said.

Meanwhile, in South Africa, the investigative process also finally due to start delivering its verdict.

Some time next week, Justice Edwin King, a 70-year-old retired judge from the Western Cape, will start picking through the facts of the Hansie Cronje affair.

King admitted that the full team to conduct the hearings still had to be assembled, and that he would not be able to start on Monday as scheduled.

But the most striking news from his opening words is that his inquiry will be open.

This means that the press and the public will be free to hear the evidence given in court.