"Why are all those penalised by Qayyum report still associated with the PCB? " : Salim Malik

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"Why are all those penalised by Qayyum report still associated with the PCB? " : Salim Malik

LAHORE: Accusing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of showing biased attitude against him, former Test captain Salim Malik on Saturday said if the PCB accepts the recommendations of the Justice Qayyum’s Report on match-fixing, why several penalised cricketers are still being employed by the board.

“If both the PCB and the ICC approve the Justice Qayyum’s Report on match-fixing, then why all penalised cricketers are not out of the PCB,” questioned Malik in an interview with Dawn on Saturday. “Why is there a pick and choose policy in the PCB since 2001 when the report has been made public.

“Big players like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and many others were also penalised by retired Justice Qayyum, but they all have been associated with the PCB in some or the other capacity and are enjoying perks without any objection from the ICC or the PCB,” asked Malik who was banned for life following Justice Qayyum’s Report.

“On the other hand, I have been cleared by the court of the law from all allegations many years back, but the PCB has so far refused to give me any role by citing the reason that ICC will raise objection to my appointment,” the former Test captain remarked.

Taking a swipe at the game’s world governing body, Malik said he has suffered dearly and have been isolated due to ICC’s dual policies at the top level. “I want to ask the ICC about its stand on me. I have been cleared of fixing charges but why am I still facing isolation from cricket fraternity,” said Malik.

“It is also glaring as to why the PCB has allowed tainted fast bowler Mohammad Amir to stage a comeback in international cricket after his involvement in spot-fixing scandal while fellow cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif are getting different treatment from the same Board,” he questioned.

“Look, I am not asking for any job in the PCB but just want to say that the Board should give equal treatment to all,” Malik said and reminded the Board that “Justice Qayyum had also recommended many other things to the PCB including the establishment of a permanent department to keep a constant check on the players’ assets.

“But the PCB is yet to take a single step towards setting up of any such department in the light of the Justice Qayyum Report due to which it has failed in eradicating the menace of corruption in Pakistan cricket,” argued the former Test batsman.

Expounding on the litigation he had been involved in for years, Malik said that he fought his case in the Supreme Court which later ordered the transfer of case to a civil court with the instruction to announce the verdict in three-month time by holding day-to-day hearing.

“The court has cleared me from all allegations and as a Pakistani I have all rights to serve the country’s cricket, but the PCB is not ready to give me the same respect which it has been giving to Wasim, Waqar, Inzamam, Mushtaq and many others,” Malik lamented.

On the other hand, a key official of the PCB said on condition of anonymity that the Board was apparently neutral with regard to the former batsman after his acquittal in the match-fixing case.

The same official while acknowledging Malik’s stance said that a detailed meeting had recently been held in this regard with Malik.

It may be mentioned here that former PCB chairman Ijaz Butt appointed Malik at the National Cricket Academy in 2010 but he had to withdraw the order after the electronic media made scathing criticism of the former captain’s job.

Answering another question regarding his ban, Malik confirmed that he had received a message then from certain quarters that if he would pay Rs1 million he could escape punishment.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1324278/salim-malik-slams-pcb-for-its-dual-policy-on-tainted-players

 

[shariqnoor]

He is correct.

 

[Pete Rose]

While the others might have been guilty concrete was found only against Malik.

 

[Junaids]

The News of the World caught the garrulous Saleem Malik on tape long before they caught the three spotfixers.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cr...ape-lifts-the-lid-on-world-of-corruption.html

 

[shariqnoor]

While the others might have been guilty concrete was found only against Malik.

Which was overturned and he was cleared. Also if the PCB is going to cite the Qayyum report as the reason for not involving Malik in any setup, then you can't implement a report partially and let Wasim, Waqar, Inzi and Mushtaq hold positions in the PCB. Now I'm not saying that Malik should be involved in the setup but you can't have double standards.

 

[Rafay Shafiq]

Qayyum report says that board will not give any responsibility to wasim, waqar, inzi in board but PCB ignore report. Reason is that PCB has zero tolerance policy

 

[Pakpak]

[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION]

Stunned.This is from 2000

HANSIE CRONJE'S confession leaves a lot of questions to be answered when he is cross-examined on Tuesday. But we have already been given a major insight into match-fixing by Salim Malik, the former Pakistan captain who has been banned for life.

Malik revealed this corrupt world in the course of a recent undercover investigation by a News of the World team who posed as businessmen keen to make big money through match-fixing. Malik was caught on video as well as audio-tape, one copy of which has been given to the International Cricket Council and another seen by the Sunday Telegraph. He has since denied wrong-doing and said he went along with the undercover team only to lure them to Pakistan where he would expose them.

An element of boasting and bartering is evident in the three conversations which took place in London in late April; Malik at first says it will cost £500,000 to buy enough players -and umpires - to guarantee the fixing of a match, but later comes down to £100,000 in cash. But overall Malik paints a picture which is so consistent in its details, and he is so careful to avoid answering difficult questions, that there is little room for doubting its authenticity. Pakistan's cricketers were the first to engage in match-fixing, according to Malik, when they were approached by bookmakers. Small bookmakers now stand to make around £150,000 a year from a commission and passing on bets to the big bookmakers, based in India.

To fix any match for certain, Malik says you need to engage five or six players in a team, including the captain. As a trial run, he suggests the businessmen can enlist one member of the current Pakistan team, a batsman, for £50,000 for one match. Malik emphasises that you must not try to fix too many matches -about one match per tournament -because the players have to be allowed to perform some of the time or they will be dropped. "It's important for old players to stay in the side so the business can continue," adds Malik.

He was asked what happened when both sides in a match had been paid to lose and he cites a game which both sides tried to lose. "Both sides were wondering what the hell was happening. We were trying to get them to score runs against us and they wouldn't."


After admitting he was Pakistan's captain in this match, Malik is asked if India were the opposition. "It was Australia," he replies. After seeing a transcript of these tapes last month, the Australian Cricket Board commissioned a new report under former detective Greg Melick which is due to be completed this week. Under scrutiny is the Singer Cup in Sri Lanka in 1994 and a match when Australia scored only 179 from 50 overs and Pakistan 150, without either team being bowled out.
Since those days the operation has become more sophisticated. "Nowadays matches are fixed straight away, but they also try and fix it during the game too," explains Malik. "That way people can't tell what is going on." Malik adds that fixing the umpires can also guarantee the outcome. "Yes, there are umpires at it. The Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, and West Indians, they do it. Englishmen do it a bit less."

This winter, Malik says, "it will be very easy for me to fix" the England series against Pakistan. "They all played with me and we've all sat together and done it before."

He then claims: "It's happening all over the world. It's everywhere. Just look at Hansie Cronje. It's everywhere." If nothing else, that at least seems to be somewhere near the truth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cr...ape-lifts-the-lid-on-world-of-corruption.html

 

[Junaids]

[MENTION=21699]Pakpak[/MENTION]
You should watch how Pakistan won the Karachi Test v Australia in 1994.

You will wonder whether Malik was actually taken up on his fix proposition. If you think carefully, we only know that Tim May rejected and reported it.

 

[Chokli]

If he was cleared why can't we have him as our batting coach?

 

[Junaids]

If he was cleared why can't we have him as our batting coach?

Read the link I posted above.

Salim Malik was caught on video by the News of the World boasting about his prior fixes and offering to do new ones.

Across the cricket world he is still known by his epithet of “The Rat”. If Pakistan employed him they would seal their own expulsion from world cricket.

There are certain cricketers like Salim Malik and Mohammad Azharuddin who have been “cleared” in amateurish court cases by courts which have no jurisdiction over world cricket. But everyone in world cricket knows what they did.

 

[Tapeballcricket]

He was asked what happened when both sides in a match had been paid to lose and he cites a game which both sides tried to lose. "Both sides were wondering what the hell was happening. We were trying to get them to score runs against us and they wouldn't."

Unbelievable!!

This is old stuff so it doesn't make me that mad anymore. Just sad that this team from the 90s could have achieved soo much more.

 

[Zhasan]

Read the link I posted above.

Salim Malik was caught on video by the News of the World boasting about his prior fixes and offering to do new ones.

Across the cricket world he is still known by his epithet of “The Rat”. If Pakistan employed him they would seal their own expulsion from world cricket.

There are certain cricketers like Salim Malik and Mohammad Azharuddin who have been “cleared” in amateurish court cases by courts which have no jurisdiction over world cricket. But everyone in world cricket knows what they did.

So why the double standard when it comes to Akram, he wasn't cleared nor rehabilitated

And that's exactly what Malik is saying that it wasn't only him who was found guilty of match fixing in that report.

Akram was an equal of Malik when it came to fixing. In fact Akram's brother Nadeem was a known bookie...

Akram, Malik, Azharuddin and Cronje were all cut from the same cloth, yet only Akram was treated with the kid gloves and a proverbial slap on the wrist.

 

[Chokli]

So why the double standard when it comes to Akram, he wasn't cleared nor rehabilitated

And that's exactly what Malik is saying that it wasn't only him who was found guilty of match fixing in that report.

Akram was an equal of Malik when it came to fixing. In fact Akram's brother Nadeem was a known bookie...

Akram, Malik, Azharuddin and Cronje were all cut from the same cloth, yet only Akram was treated with the kid gloves and a proverbial slap on the wrist.

And you have Akram walking around like a saint.

 

[Savak]

The 90's players got off very easy. There wasn't even a lot of money in cricket back then, i am surprised the authorities never really drilled down on the assets that the 90's players had and compared it to their sources of income.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

Sad to say but being cleared by Pakistani courts is not an exoneration by any recognizable international standards. Pakistan's entire justice system is broken.

So Malik will have to do this in English courts to have some credibility.