Match
Fixing News
Malik, Wasim may get life bans after Judicial Commission
report
KARACHI: While the Pakistani public and press is still guessing about
the outcome of the Judicial Commission inquiry into allegations of match-fixing
and betting against some players, the international press seems to be aware
of what the Commission is going to recommend. A story carried by the 'Daily
Mail' tabloid from London, says that Wasim Akram and Salim Malik face life
bans from cricket and could be barred from any role in
running the game under recommendations being made by a Pakistan Judicial
Commission. The Mail writes: "Three other Pakistani players -- Waqar Younis,
Mushtaq Ahmed and Ijaz Ahmed -- are in danger of being banned for life,
although senior sources within the Commission say their fates are still
in the balance." In other words The Mail is saying that Wasim Akram
and Malik are certain to face bans on recommendations of the Commission,
which is headed by Mr Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum. According to The Mail,
the commission has heard evidence that Malik was given US$100,000 in a
deal arranged by bookie Salim Pervaiz, a former International player. Pervaiz
is reported to have admitted his guilt before the Commission and has claimed
he paid US$100,000 to Malik and Mushtaq Ahmed in Sri Lanka to ensure Pakistan
lost a Singer Cup match to Australia. Among the papers studied by the Commission,
The Mail says there were cheques issued to Malik during 1994 and 95 via
a bank in Sharjah. The paper also claims that in the 1996 World Cup, at
least two matches of Pakistan were allegedly fixed: One against South Africa
(in Karachi) and one against India in the quarter-final at Bangalore. The
Mail claims according to evidence given to the Commission, both Malik and
Wasim were seen in the company of an Indian bookmaker before the game against
India. Wasim eventually did not play that match due to injury.The Mail
says a team-mate has alleged that the same bookmaker took Malik on a shopping
spree which included buying dozens of saris. According to The Mail, Rashid
Latif has also provided evidence that once when he walked into the captain's
hotel bedroom in the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg in '95 he found
Malik in conversation with a bookmaker called Hanif Cadbury.
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