Salim malik

Eden Gardens was reverberating with nervous energy. India were on top most of the time, but slowly, without our knowing it, Malik had taken the game away. We knew he was the danger man, but we couldn't keep him off strike. Maninder was trying to get him out by trying to beat him in the flight. But Malik picked everything so well that he easily pierced the five-man leg-side field. Rameez Raja When Malik came in at 161 for 5, we didn't really think we had a chance - we needed about 80 runs still and there were no batsmen left apart from him. In those days, that sort of run-rate was considered impossible to achieve - we needed six an over at the start, which was high, and then when he came in, it was about eight or nine. We only thought we were in with a chance with about four overs to go, and in particular after Malik blasted Kapil for five fours in an over. He square-drove him, hit him over fine leg, and through third man. Their field placings were just following the ball after that. Those boundaries were part of seven he hit in a row.

BBC News | CRICKET | Malik guilty of match-fixing You are in: Cricket Entertainment The BBC's Zafeer Abbas "Life bans have been recommended" real 28k Ralph Dellor, ICC spokesman "It would be inappropriate to comment on the report" real 28k The BBC's Shahid Hashmi "There have been a lot of allegations surrounding Salim Malik" real 28k BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew "Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman will be banned for life" real 28k Wednesday, 24 May, 2000, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK Former Pakistan captain Salim Malik and medium pace bowler Ata-ur Rehman have been found guilty of match-fixing, by a one-man judicial inquiry. Justice Malik Qayyum recommended life bans for both players and a 1m rupee fine (£12,500) for Malik, following a year long investigation into the allegations. Judge Qayyum recommended Malik be banned from any connection with cricket, either as a player or manager. PCB chairman Taqueer Zia "There is clear evidence of match-fixing against Mr Salim Malik," Judge Qayyum said. "He should be banned for life from cricket. "Further, an inquiry should be conducted into his assets and charges brought against him in a criminal court of law." The inquiry also recommended a 300,000 rupee (£3,300) fine for former cricket captain Wasim Akram, because he failed to co-operate with the judicial inquiry. Wasim Akram was fined for not co-operating with the inquiry The report does not accuse Wasim, who is currently playing for Pakistan's national team in the West Indies, of a...

RUMOUR turned into accusation last week when Salim Malik, the captain of Pakistan, was reported to have offered three Australian players large sums of money to throw matches. For some time now, there have been whispers in the game that the Pakistanis have been involved in match-fixing, though these unsubstantiated claims were thought to have been regarding one-day matches. There were murmurings about events on Australia's tour to Pakistan last year, but it wasn't until Zimbabwe's recent thrashing of the Pakistanis - the kind of freak result that raises the climate of suspicion - that a report, compiled by the Australian Cricket Board soon after they returned last October, was leaked to an Australian newspaper and players were named. It seems that Salim's approaches were openly talked about in the Australian dressing-room and that everybody, including the coach, Bobby Simpson, and the manager, Colonel Egar, knew about them. That would explain how the matter ended up in the report, but not why that report has taken so long to come to light. Like the TCCB before them - when confronted by the ball tampering controversy with Pakistan in 1992 - it seems the ACB never intended to go public, preferring to deal privately with the ICC rather than risk confrontation with the Pakistan Board. Salim does not easily fit the bill as villain. In his two years at Essex, other than regularly running-out his colleagues, he was remarkable only for his desire to keep himself to himself. He was...

Pakistan cricket has never been about openers. The number one and two barely ever stick. Hark back all the way to 1952 — when Pakistan played its first Test – and you’d find a select few opening batsmen who were reliable enough to make their name. Hanif Mohammad and Saeed Anwar — but who else? Openers just don’t do it in Pakistani shirts. Which means that whatever run piling gets done is done in the middle-order. Make a list of quality number 3-6 batsmen just from the 90s to the present times, and there will be plenty of names — if not an embarrassment of riches. Javed Miandad, Inzamamul Haq, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbahul Haq — to this list you can also add some from the current era such as Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali and even the young stud Babar Azam. There is one name you will likely forget for sure — that is of Saleem Malik. Malik — the original Malik — was the mainstay of Pakistani batting for nearly two decades. He averaged 43.70 in Tests (11th highest among locals) and a shade under 33 in ODIs — nothing extraordinary but healthy enough for his times. But while you would remember all of the other middle-order geniuses and Azhar Alis, you would not remember Malik. When he was In the 20 years since, Malik had largely disappeared until old pal Inzi Malik, who he was and what he batted like, has largely been forgotten but even those who know who he is, do not know that his life ban was There were Word also has it that the PCB is laying the groundwork to rehabilitate ...

“In the series against South Africa [in 1994], we had won five matches out of six, beating everyone,” Malik said. “Now, because I was winning matches, and had won all series until then, some people had a problem with it, wondering ‘How should we counter him? What should we do so that he is removed?’ I didn’t understand back then what was happening because I was not part of any politics.” Speaking about his relationship with Wasim and Waqar, the two spearheads of Pakistan’s pace attacks through the Nineties, Malik said that the two gave him a hard time during his captaincy stint, refusing to speak in anger. “Wasim and Waqar were my support, but as professionals, they would focus on their own performances. Do you know, when I was made captain, both of them (Wasim and Waqar) wouldn’t speak to me. I even talked to them about it a couple of times.” Malik then went on to describe how he pitted Wasim and Waqar against one another to give their best for Pakistan. “When I would ask them to bowl… do you know how I used to manage them at that time? When I would go to Wasim to hand him the ball, he would snatch it from me, because he wasn’t talking to me,” Malik said, “There was anger because I had become captain, whereas Wasim and Waqar wanted it. Both of them weren’t speaking to me, and yet we won the series. Wasim would snatch the ball from me and walk away, and I would walk along with him. Waz wasn’t talking to me.” “I would tell him: ‘Waz, you’re the No.1 bowler in the world.’ I ...

Saleem Malik was many things: a gifted, wristy, square-of-the-wicket batsman; the first man who really got on top of Shane Warne, in Pakistan in 1994-95; a fine overseas player for Essex (where he became known as "Slim") in 1991, if less so later; and an influential captain of Pakistan. Unfortunately his role in cricket did not end there. In 2000, he became the first player to be banned - from all cricket - for match-fixing, when Justice Qayyum's inquiry found him guilty. Shane Warne and Mark Waugh also testified that Malik had tried to bribe them to lose the Karachi Test of 1994-95 (which Australia did, by one wicket). He protested his innocence, appealed against the ban in 2001 but the Lahore High Court rejected it. He sought relief from the Supreme Court and after a seven-year wait, had his ban lifted by a lower court. ESPNcricinfo staff

Salim Malik became the first major casualty of the match-rigging scandal yesterday when he was condemned in a report as guilty of corruption and it was recommended that he be banned for life from any involvement in cricket. The report, the result of a two-year judicial investigation by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum and released by the Pakistan In Australia there will be a sense of relief that the commission decided the evidence given by two of their players, Shane Warne and Mark Waugh, was key in proving the charges against Malik - even though they had admitted taking money from bookmakers. Throughout the international game last night there was satisfaction that a culprit has been exposed and a name blackened. Cricket, its genteel image forever destroyed, badly needed a victim. International cricket will believe that the Qayyum Report has delivered a guilty verdict against a man whose corruption is now beyond doubt. Malik again professed his innocence and said he was being victimised by the PCB. "I will swear any oath, to God, that I am innocent. My hands are clean," he said, adding that his lawyers will appeal within two days. For some, uncertainty still persists. The commission found the evidence against Wasim Akram was not strong enough to justify a ban but Judge Qayyum held that allegations against him rendered him "too sullied" to captain Pakistan again. According to the commission, Wasim, due to take up a commentating role with Channel 4 for the West Indies series, s...

LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Salim Malik on Sunday apologised to the nation over match-fixing after long 19 years and said he was ready to reveal all the secrets linked to match-fixing due to which he was banned for life. “I am very sorry for what I had done 19 years ago. I am ready to extend unconditional cooperation to the International Cricket Council and the Pakistan Cricket Board in this regard,” he said here in a video message. Right-handed Malik, 57, was found guilty of match-fixing and was banned for life after a judicial inquiry in 2000 in a scandal that rocked the cricket-mad nation. Australian cricketers’ trio of Shane Warne, Mark Waugh and Tim May had accused him of offering them bribes to underperform during their tour of Pakistan in 1994-95. Malik’s ban was lifted by a Pakistani court in 2008 but the decision was not endorsed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) or the International Cricket Council (ICC). Convicted cricketer apologises for involvement in fixing The former middle-order batsman, who played 103 Tests and 283 One-day Internationals in a career that stretched from 1982 to 1999, said he was also ready to cooperate with the anti-corruption unit of the ICC to provide them information in match-fixing scandal. He said under the human rights laws, he also deserved that his case be considered on humanitarian grounds as he had suffered a lot due to the mistake he committed long ago and spent 19 years of life in wilderness being away from the game. “I di...