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BRISBANE, AUGUST 12: The South African cricket team slipped into Brisbane onSaturday unconcerned over an interim report into the country’s match-fixingscandal.
Captain Shaun Pollock, speaking at Brisbane airport, ahead of next week’sOne-Day series against Australia, said the morale of the team was unlikelyto be affected by the findings of the report.
“Not at all, there’s been a cloud hanging over our head for the last fewmonths ever since the story broke,” he said.
“I don’t think it’s going to reveal anything new so the chaps aren’tworried about it at all.”
Judge Edwin King, who heads the commission inquiry into match-fixing, handedthe South African government his report on Friday but said it did notcontain final recommendations.
The inquiry has centred on admissions disgraced South African cricketcaptain, Hansie Cronje accepted bribes of more than $ 100,000 from bookiessince 1996.
