Mumbai, Sept. 7: The International Cricket Council has set September 27 and 28 as the dates for the hearing into happenings at the controversial Oval Test between Pakistan and England.

Speaking at the launch of the ICC Champions Trophy official website on Thursday, ICC CEO Malcom Speed said the hearing would take place in London and conducted by senior match referee Ranjan Madugalle of Sri Lanka.

Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul Haq will face charges of ball-tampering as well as of bringing the game into disrepute. "I don’t want to dwell much on the hearing after having asked the Pakistan team members as well as the umpires concerned to keep quiet on it," he said.

Speed also believes that the ball tampering issue was not a big matter. "This is a simple issue. It would not get into the top ten crises that has affected the game like the chucking issue, Bodyline, World Series Cricket and corruption. Those were serious issues."

Speed also said that the match referee, Mike Procter could have controlled the situation on the field itself.

"As per the laws of the game, the umpires should be the sole judges of fair and unfair play.

"The referee, generally a former cricketer, deals with the problems on the field of action at the end of the day’s play by calling the players concerned, the captains and the umpires for a hearing (in his room)," Speed added.

When it was pointed out there was no video evidence available on the alleged tampering, Speed, replied: "The ball is evidence. The evidence from the umpires and people who have seen the ball. "I am not saying the charges are equivalent to committing murder or robbery, but drawing an analogy, if we require video evidence of every murder or robbery committed then the jails of this world would be empty. There are other evidences. It will all unfold at the hearing," he added.

Speed, however, refused to specify whether forensic tests would be done to solve this matter.