The other option for Australia would be to include Brett Geeves, who like McKay has played two one-dayers but has yet to experience Test cricket, in an all-seam attack and rely on Marcus North and Michael Clarke to provide any spin they might need.
It was the second match-fixing inquiry carried out in Pakistan, following Justice Qayyum's report two years ago which resulted in life bans for former captain Salim Malik and seam bowler Ata-ur-Rehman.
Two more men escaped unaided from the drift mine - a mine cut into the side of a hill where the coal seam is accessed horizontally - before emergency services arrived.