A PAKISTANI civil court has summonsed former South African cricket chief Ali Bacher to appear next month in a $1.7m libel suit filed by former umpire Javed Akhtar. An ex-parte decision will be taken if Bacher fails to appear or contest the case. Bacher, now head of South Africa’s 2003 World Cup committee, told the King Commission of inquiry in June last year that he had been informed that Akhtar took money from a bookie to give eight leg before wicket decisions. – AFP