Rehman, however, rejected any possibility of foul play in the final against Australia which Pakistan lost badly after being shot out for 132.

``No corruption or foul play has been detected in the final. The team appeared tired and their approach was also non-professional,'' Rehman told reporters yesterday during his first visit to the PCB headquarters at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium yesterday in his new capacity.

Rehman said all those found guilty of match-fixing during the World Cup would be punished and that ``disregarded players and new talent'' would be drafted into the national side to completely overhaul cricket in the country.

Announcing that he has been given the mandate by president Mohammad Rafiq Tarar to ``cleanse the game of allills and to enforce discipline,'' Rehman promised there would be no victimisation but warned of severe action against those found guilty, including senior players.

``Guilty players will be handed out exemplary punishment irrespective of their stature,'' he said.

Rehman, however, said ``all penalties or punishment'' would be on the basis of the verdict of the one-man judicial commission currently investigating allegations of betting and match-fixing in Pakistan cricket.

Rehman announced dissolution of a PCB probe committee that was formed last year to go into charges of match-fixing against players. It had indicted skipper Wasim Akram, Salim Malik and Ijaz Ahmed in its interim report before the matter was referred to the judicial commission by the government.

Rehman said there would be no compromise over the match-fixing issue and that the PCB was ready to rebuild the Pakistan team.

``Plenty of talent is available in the country. All the players who had been disregarded in the past would be givenopportunity to show their worth, but their selection would be purely on merit,'' he said.

The PCB ad hoc committee chairman said he would be personally meeting members of the World Cup squad on July 26 to take stock of things and try to ascertain what actually went wrong in the final.

Rehman said very soon he will induct some more members to the two-man panel -- Javed Zaman Khan in the other member -- and also constitute the national selection committee.

Interestingly, former leg-spinner Abdul Qadir was sitting beside Rehman during the press conference.

There has been nationwide outcry after Pakistan's World Cup final defeat and demand for immediate removal of Wasim Akram as skipper, accusing him of involvement in match-fixing.

A number of discarded players like ex-captains Aamir Sohail and Rashid Latif and paceman Aaqib Javed have welcomed the suspension of the PCB management on July 16 and hoped the interim panel would do justice to those ignored by the previous set-up.