keveen said:
Uta paradila epa wenna athi.
Oya FIXING nisa thamanta ona nethi unath paradinna wenawa.. wagema thamanta beri unath dinanna labenawa....
Dinana kota prashnayak ne thamai.. Eth anunge ona kamata paradinna unama epa wenawane..
Habai Lankawe eka koy tharam tiyanawada kiyala danne nehe.. Miracles wage dewal wenakot ehema hitenawa.
Menna pakisthane
Salim Malik banned for match-fixing
Former Pakistan captain and Test bowler are suspended for life after inquiry while Wasim Akram is among six other players fined
By Derek Pringle
Thursday, 25 May 2000
The much-awaited report into match-fixing in Pakistan by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum has finally been released, seven months after it was completed. As a result, the Pakistan Cricket Board last night banned for life their former captain, Salim Malik, and the former Test bowler Ata-ur-Rehman.
The much-awaited report into match-fixing in Pakistan by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum has finally been released, seven months after it was completed. As a result, the Pakistan Cricket Board last night banned for life their former captain, Salim Malik, and the former Test bowler Ata-ur-Rehman.
The inquiry, the most exhaustive one yet into corruption, found there was clear evidence that Salim had been involved in match-fixing and recommended he be banned from the game for life. Justice Malik also recommended fines for another six players, and a life ban for the fast bowler Ata, though in this case on the grounds of perjury.
One of those which the report recommended be fined was the former captain Wasim Akram, one of five players criticised in the report who are still playing the game. Apparently not enough evidence presented itself for Wasim to be banned, but Justice Malik recommended that he be censured and hisfinances investigated.
"The evidence against Wasim Akram did not come up to the requisite level," said the report, "mainly due to Ata-ur-Rehman perjuring himself.
"This commission is willing to give Wasim the benefit of the doubt. However, there has been some evidence to cast doubt on his integrity."
Others criticised and recommended for fines were Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar, the last four due to their non-cooperation with the enquiry. The fines range from £11,600 for Salim, £3,500 for Wasim and Mushtaq and £1,150 for the others. The England and Wales Cricket Board, whose chairman, Lord MacLaurin, called the emergency meeting of the International Cricket Council at Lord's two weeks ago, welcomed the findings.
"We are pleased that this report has been published and remain firmly opposed to all forms of corruption within the game," said an ECB spokesman yesterday. "However, we will need to study the findings of this report in detail and talk to our colleagues in Pakistan before we can make any further comment."
Ever since Hansie Cronje's admissions last month plunged the international game into crisis, cricket has needed a scapegoat. In the shape of Salim it now has one, though due to his retirement from the game last year, a convenient one.
That could change though, at least from Salim's point of view, if Justice Malik's recommendation that "an inquiry be made into his assets and charges brought against him in a criminal court of law," goes ahead.
The name of Malik is no surprise, as he has been in the frame ever since the Australian Test players Shane Warne, Mark Waugh and Tim May alleged he had offered them £130,000 each to lose a Test in 1994. According to one Sunday tabloid newspaper, Malik unwittingly admitted to them that he could fix any match in England's forthcoming tour of Pakistan this October for £500,000.
The newspaper reckons to have videotape of Malik's claims, something due to be looked into by Lord Griffiths chairman of the ICC's Code of Conduct Commission and convenor of the new watchdog set up at the emergency meeting.
Justice Malik's findings were almost as comprehensive. "Everyone seems to name him as the main culprit in the match-fixing," says the report which has languished in one Pakistan government department or another since it was completed last October.
Salim, who played with Essex for two seasons in the early Nineties, is thought to have got into financial difficulties after the BCCI bank, for whom he was working in a PR capacity, went bust. Suddenly all those he had persuaded to invest money with it were clamouring for reimbursement. He needed money, and lots of it - fast.
If he is match-fixing's "Mr Big", as has been implied, he will not have managed it entirely on his own. That Justice Malik recommends some form of punishment for seven other players suggests as much.
Pakistan's lead - albeit it an unwilling one due to the delay - will hopefully ensure a thorough approach to the enquiry about to start in South Africa.
That Justice Malik's report has now finally hit the streets owes much to the recent ICC meeting and the resolution of member countries to do something about the corruption gnawing at the game. So far the inquiry's recommendation that a zero tolerance approach be taken against match-fixing has already been echoed by the ICC.
There is bound to be more to come in this dirty business. Until yesterday the Pakistan report had been in danger of becoming a myth. Now it has been released, one or two cricketing gods have suddenly been brought down to earth.
THE GUILTY MEN
SALIM MALIK Banned from any connection with cricket, either as a player or manager; fined £11,600; criminal charges brought.
ATA-UR-REHMAN Banned from international cricket for life; fined £1,150; perjury charges proceeded with.
WASIM AKRAM* Fined £3,500; censured and finances investigated; not allowed to captain Pakistan again.
MUSHTAQ AHMED* Fined £3,500; not allowed to captain the national team.
Waqar Younis*, Inzamam-ul Haq*, Akram Raza, and former captain Saeed Anwar: all fined £1,150 for not co-operating with inquiry.
*Current Test players
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