Burki, also former chairman of national selection committee, made a deposition before the government-appointed one-man probe body headed by justice Mailk Mohammed Qayyum of Lahore High Court yesterday and submitted: ``I was absolutely sure match-fixing and betting was going on in the Pakistani team.''

He told the committee that the matter first came to light during Pakistan's tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1994-95 when wicket-keeper and vice-captain, Rashid Latif, made allegations of match-fixing against skipper Malik.

Burki said after these allegations were made public, he flew to Harare and met Latif along with Aamir Sohail and, ``They leveled charges of betting and match-fixing against Malik andother members of the team, though they did not name them.''

He said during the 1994 Singer Cup in Sri Lanka also, Malik rang him up and requested permission to attend a wedding in Pakistan during the one-week gap between the Test series and start of the tournament and later it was alleged that during his visit, Malik met a leading bookie in Lahore, Khalid Ghitti, to fix one of the matches in Singer Cup.

``The match was fixed and Saeed Anwar had told me that during the match he was asked by the 12th man not to play well and get himself out,'' Burki said.

When he asked Anwar to make a written statement in this regard first he agreed but later said he could not do so because his brother had been threatened with dire consequences if he (Saeed) made the statement, Burki added.

Incidentally, during the same period, three Australian cricketers had also accused Mailk of offering them bribe to fix one of the matches during their tour of Pakistan.

On the subsequent action by PCB on this issue, Burki said``this was a big problem for the ad hoc committee (headed by Burki).''

``If we decided to hold an open inquiry about this affair and found that the captain of the Pakistani team was guilty of having tried to bribe the members of other team, Pakistanis could be brought into disrepute and my advice was that whatever steps were needed to be taken, should be taken quietly by the board and matter be closed here,'' he said.

He also said that before handing over affairs of the board to new office-bearers, ``my advice to them was they should make sure Malik never again plays for Pakistan. Similarly action should be taken against the other suspect Ijaz Ahmed and Wasim Akram should be warned.''

Burki also raised doubts about the role of Akram and Waqar Younis during his deposition as he said during the English tour both the bowlers were devastating in the Test series.