Mark Waugh named in pretty much all the reports of match fixing investigations.
He had contacts with guys like Prabhakar, Salim Malik etc on ths, both were banned by their respective boards for match fixing.
Waugh introduced players (including his team mate Warne) to Bookies
Waugh was fined by ACB for his links with bookies.
CBI investigation found out that Waugh was paid money by the bookies through Prabhakar
a. "MK (John) has also stated that he was introduced to Mark Waugh by Prabhakar during a six-a-side tournament in Hong Kong. Prabhakar has accepted this fact. MK (John) has further stated that he paid a sum of $20,000 to Mark Waugh to provide 'information' about pitch, weather, team strategy, morale etc whenever Australia played."2
b. "Meanwhile, Manoj Prabhakar had also introduced Mark Waugh to MK (John) during a six-a-side cricket tournament in Hong Kong. MK (John) paid a sum of $20,000 in exchange of (for) information regarding team morale, discussions taking place during team meetings, percentage of chances of winning or losing, etc. regarding the Australian team. Manoj Prabhakar was also paid for arranging this meeting."3
He was fined by the ACB for his involvement with A bookie. Singular.
Interesting that you pluralised the sentence "Waugh introduced players (including his team mate Warne) to Bookies". Aside from Warne, who else did he introduce?
Unless you have some information that I am not aware of, his "contact" with Malik was that he was offered US$200,000 to split between the Waughs, May and Warne in return for them throwing a match- an offer that was rejected out of hand, and disclosed to team management at the time. I've looked around, and I can't find any other link between the two.
Mark Waugh was mentioned in five places in the CBI report. One was in Gupte's statement, one was in Prabhakar's, one was in the section of conclusions relating to Prabhakar, one was in the section of conclusions relating to the Australian team, the last being in the list of final conclusions. All of them contained the same single accusation- that being that Prabhakar introduced Waugh to Gupte, and Gupte stated that he paid Waugh US$20,000 in return for information regarding "pitch, weather, team strategy, morale etc". Out of a very long report, there was a total of five sections that mentioned Waugh at all, and all of those were in reference to that single accusation. In response to that accusation, Waugh has maintained that he only provided pitch and weather information, and has compared it to the information that he (and other players) gave during media interviews.
Aside from the rejected offer from Malik, I haven't been able to find a single other credible accusation against Waugh. Certainly nothing that suggests he fixed a match, which concurs with the findings of the O'Regan inquiry.
(That said- Waugh and Warne were both extraordinarily foolish, and the ACB was just as culpable for trying to conceal it. Both were punished, and I agree that their punishment was far too light.)
Interestingly, the CBI report that you quoted listed as "match fixing" BOTH providing information to bookmakers and influencing curators to provide a favourable pitch, among other things. That would seem to support my original point, that the two comparisons are similar- the author of the report would probably suggest that they are similarly valid (or invalid, as the case may be.).
How's that any different to, for instance, S? No-one would know if the cameras weren't on him either.
