Malik: Investigated by Qayyum

July: Akram, Malik and Ahmed are banned from playing for Pakistan until they are cleared by Qayyum.

September: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mujeeb Rahman Khan announces that the three have been reinstated. Qayyum says he has not completed his report.

2000

April 7: Delhi police charge South African captain Hansie Cronje and his team-mates Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje with involvement in match-fixing. They deny the charges.

April 11: Cronje is savked as captain after admitting he had not been "entirely honest" in his response to the allegations. The South African Cricket Board say Cronje accepted cash from two bookmakers, one South African and the other an Indian based in London.

April 28: The Indian government asks the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct an official investigation into match-fixing.

May 3: ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya announces life bans for anyone found guilty of match-fixing. The ICC set up the Anit-Corruption Unit and asks all players to sign a declaration saying whether or not they had been asked to take part in any corrupt activity.

May 4: South African judge Edwin King is named to lead an inquiry into Cronje.

May 22: ACB says it will investigate allegations by Malik that Australians were involved in match-fixing during the 1994 tour to Pakistan.

Warne: Fined for giving information

May 24: PCB chairman Taurir Zia releases Qayyum report. Malik and all-rounder Ata-ur Rehman are banned for life - Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar are censured and fined. Qayyum says there was no planned betting or match-fixing "but doubts of varying intensity have been cast on the integrity of some members of the team in their individual capacity."

June 2: Cronje hands confession to King commission which says "in a moment of stupidity and weakness, I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me".

June 7: Former South Africa off-spinner Pat Symcox tells inquiry he rejected an offer by a "current international" whom he declines to name to throw a match.

June 8: Gibbs admits accepting $15,000 from Cronje on the understanding he will score less than 20 in the fifth one-day international against India at Nagpur in March. He says his room mate Henry Williams agreed to accept a similar sum to concede 50 runs from 10 overs. Gibbs hit 74 and said he did not receive any money while Williams did not complete his bowling spell.

June 9: Gibbs dropped for South Africa tour of Sri Lanka.

June 10: Bacher says former Pakistan Board chief executive Majid Khan told him some 1999 World Cup matches had been fixed. Cronje offered immunity from prosecution in South Africa if he is "absolutely honest."

Cronje: "Moment of stupidity and weakness"

June 15: Cronje submits statement to inquiry admitting to taking four bribes. He says he received money from a man who was introduced to him by former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin.

June 16: Azharuddin denies Cronje's allegation.

June 17: An affadavit signed by a Cape Town businessman claims former West Indies captain Brian Lara received cash during a 1993 one-day tournament in South Africa. Lara issues a denial.

June 26: Sir Paul Condon named as head of ICC's anti-corruption body.

August 19: Gibbs and Williams formally plead guilty before the United Cricket Board of South Africa disciplinary committee to agreeing to accept money from Cronje.

August 28: Gibbs and Williams are banned from international cricket for six months retrospectively from June 30 to December 31.

October 9: Pakistan Cricket Board asks for judicial investigation into allegations of match-fixing at 1999 World Cup.

October 11: UCBSA ban Cronje for life.

October 16: Condon rules out amnesty for match fixers at ICC meeting in Nairobi.

Williams: Six month ban

November 1: Indian Central Bureau of Investigation report accuses Azharuddin of fixing matches but exonerates Kapil Dev. The report says bookmaker MA Gupta offered or paid money to nine non-Indian players including former West Indies' skipper Brian Lara, former England captain Alec Stewart and Mark Waugh. Australia's Dean Jones, South Africa's Hansie Cronje, Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga, New Zealand's Martin Crowe and Salim Malik are also named in the report.

November 23: Azharuddin denies match-fixing. "This is all wrong. I have done nothing of the kind," he says.

December 5: Indian cricket board bans Azharuddin and former Test player Ajay Sharma for life. Jadeja and Manoj Prabhakar are banned for five years.

2001

January 22: Mark Waugh declines to be interviewed by Anti-Corruption Unit or ACB about the Indian Bureau of Investigation. He later agrees when presented with details of the investigation.

February 5: King Commission postponed again from its revised resumption date of February 19 after Cronje's lawyers refer to a Constitutional Court ruling saying a judge can not also be in charged of a special investigative unit.

May 22: Sir Paul Condon's interim report is published.