Shoaib Malik banned for one Test, fined 75% of match fee
Pakistan Times Sports Desk

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board has banned all-rounder Shoaib Malik for one test and fined 75% of his match fee of the first two one-day internationals to be played in West Indies.

The punishment means that Malik will not be playing the first test the team will play at Barbados during the tour of West Indies. He has also been fined 75 percent of two one day matches of the three match series.

The action was taken on the recommendations of an inquiry committee comprising Haroon Rashid, Shafiq Ahmed Papa and Asghar Ali Hider after the all rounder who captained Sialkot Stallions openly confessed to a tv commentator for deliberately throwing a match of Twenty-20 Cricket Cup last week against Karachi Zebras.

“Malik and his Sialkot regional team, management and coach have also been reprimanded for their irresponsibility in manipulating match result “, said a spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board while talking to APP here Monday

He said Malik who appeared before the committee and recorded his statement gave evidence and admitted for losing the match deliberately from a winning position.

He said Inquiry Committee took serious note of Malik’s action which damaged Pakistan’s cricketing image and showing disrespect to the large crowd by manipulating the result of the match.

The Committee took into account that Malik publicly apologized for his action and that he had an unblemished record of conduct during his career, he added.

He said it also recognized that Malik’s action was not part of any match-fixing with no financial implications but an immature and misplaced attempt to express his discontent.

The spokesman said taking all factors into consideration, the Inquiry Committee made its recommendations to the PCB Chairman and to the PCB’s ad-hoc committee which met here on Monday invoked the penalties.●