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Salim Malik

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Salim Malik Biography
Saleem Malik
سلیم ملک Personal information
Full name     Saleem Malik
Born     16 April 1963 (age 49)
Lahore, Pakistan
Batting style     Right-handed
Bowling style     Right arm off break / slow-medium
International information
National side     Pakistan
Test debut (cap 90)     5 March 1982 v Sri Lanka
Last Test     20 February 1999 v India
ODI debut (cap 38)     12 January 1982 v West Indies
Last ODI     8 June 1999 v India
ODI shirt no.     3
Domestic team information
Years     Team
1981–1999     Lahore
1982–2000     Habib Bank Limited
1991–1993     Essex
1991–1992     Sargodha
Career statistics
Competition     Test     ODI     FC     LA
Matches     103     283     269     426
Runs scored     5,768     7,170     16,586     11,856
Batting average     43.69     32.88     45.94     36.59
100s/50s     15/29     5/47     43/81     12/78
Top score     237     102     237     138
Balls bowled     734     3,505     5,784     5,745
Wickets     5     89     93     160
Bowling average     82.80     33.24     35.30     29.35
5 wickets in innings     0     1     4     1
10 wickets in match     –     n/a     0     n/a
Best bowling     1/3     5/35     5/19     5/35
Catches/stumpings     65/–     81/–     167/–     141/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 February 2010
Saleem Malik (Urdu: سلیم ملک‎) (born 16 April 1963) (also known as Salim Malik) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective. Despite playing over 100 Tests he would go down in cricket history as the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned for match fixing around the start of the 21st century. Saleem is the brother-in-law of former teammate Ijaz Ahmed.[1]
Contents
    1 Career highlights
    2 Match fixing
    3 See also
    4 References
    5 External links
Career highlights
Malik played his first Test match in March 1982, against Sri Lanka at Karachi.[2] After making 12 in his first innings he made an unbeaten 100 in the second to set up a declaration. Aged 18 years and 323 days he was at the time the second youngest player to make a century on Test debut.[3]
During the tour of England in 1987, Malik fell for 99 at Headingley and made 102 at The Oval. He would become familiar with English conditions, playing for Essex for a couple of years during the early 1990s. He had a good season in 1991, scoring 1972 runs, the 3rd most by a non-English player for Essex.[4] In Test cricket he performed better against England than any other of his opponents, appearing 19 times and making 1396 runs at 60.70.[5]
One of his notable performances in One Day International cricket was an innings that he played against India in 1987.[6] Chasing 238 in 40 overs, Pakistan were reduced to 5/161 when Saleem arrived at the crease. He scored 72 out of the remaining 77 runs required, making them from just 36 deliveries. He finished unbeaten and Pakistan won by 2 wickets with 3 balls still to spare in the match.
He captained Pakistan in 12 Tests, winning 7. In ODI cricket he led his country 34 times and won 21 of them.
Match fixing
Malik captained Pakistan in tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe before being suspended from cricket having been accused of bribery. He was however found innocent and allowed to continue his career. Malik played his last Test match in January 1999 but ended his cricket career in disgrace, having been banned from associating himself with the game in any capacity by Justice Qayyam's enquiry in May 2000. He became the first ever cricketer to be banned for match fixing and his appeals of innocence have not borne fruit since, remaining an outcast in the cricketing world.[7]
Saleem Malik's career performance graph.
A local court of Lahore, has lifted the life ban imposed by Pakistan Cricket Board on 23 October 2008. Civil judge Malik Mohammad Altaf ruled in favour of Malik and quashed the ban imposed for alleged match fixing.[8]
He claimed to have accepted an offer by the PCB to work as the Chief Coach for country's National Cricket Academy on 3 November 2008 just days after the ban was lifted, however, the PCB denied making any such offer.[9]
In October 2012, Saleem Malik has submitted his application to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the position of batting coach. Earlier this month the PCB has placed an advertisement seeking a batting coach for the national side.
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