'Purposely lost game' – 'Fixing' accusation against Shoaib Malik adds to a long list of controversies

[Tillu]

Pakistan’s new showpiece tournament, the Champions Cup, began on September 12 with five teams participating. Each side, which has several international players, is being mentored by veterans, including Misbah-ul-Haq, Saqlain Mushtaq, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Waqar Younis.

 

Basit, who represented Pakistan for three years from 1993, has questioned the choice of Malik as a mentor, accusing him of purposely losing a match previously: “A player who doesn’t think of his country, he shouldn’t be made [the mentor]. The player who admits he has purposely lost a game, should not be the mentor. If you want evidence, I shall give it.”

 

Incidentally, Basit was also allegedly involved in match-fixing scandals that led to the premature end of his career.

When Shoaib Malik was banned for a Test in 2005

While the game being referred to by Basit is not confirmed, Malik had been embroiled in controversy and was suspended for a Test match after he accepted to deliberately losing a domestic T20 match back in 2005.

The former captain admitted to engineering a four-run defeat for his side Sialkot Stallions against Karachi Zebras during the National T20 Cup, a result he thought would knock the Lahore Eagles out of the competition.

 

According to reports, Malik was shown video footage of the incident and later admitted to throwing the game. He later apologised for his actions, suggesting it was “in the heat of the moment”, but it could not prevent a one-Test match ban. As a result, he missed the first Test against the West Indies in Barbados in May.

 

 

Malik was punished under clauses 2.9 and 2.11 of the International Cricket Council’s Code of Conduct and was also fined 75% of his match fees for the first two ODIs in the West Indies.

The three-member inquiry committee also severely reprimanded the Sialkot team management for manipulating the result of the match.

 

Malik left out of the team for a year in 2010 due to bank account discrepancies 

 

 

Five years later, Malik found himself in another controversy and was left out of the team due to allegations of illegal earnings. He had failed to explain a large sum of money (approximately GBP 90,000) in an overseas bank account to the integrity committee of the PCB that had been formed following the spot-fixing scandal during Pakistan’s tour to England in 2010.

“Malik was unable to explain where the money came from, its source and how it was in his account. That was the reason why he was not cleared for selection," the report in The Dawn said.

He also missed the ODI World Cup in 2011, as a result, and was only cleared for selection after a thorough investigation in August.

 

Malik had also been sidelined in early 2010 for being a negative influence on the side with several senior players complaining against him after an ugly revolt against Younis Khan. He was initially banned for a year, which was later lifted abruptly. 

 

Malik’s BPL contract terminated in 2024

Malik’s contract in the Bangladesh Premier League with team Fortune Barishal was terminated this year after he bowled three no-balls in one over against Khulna Tigers. The action of the spinner raised suspicions of match-fixing, with the team’s owner Mizanur Rahman expressing dissatisfaction with Malik and demanding an inquiry into the incident.

Malik, however, refuted the claims.

 

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[Tillu]

Every Pakistani fixer got a second chance except Danish Kaneria.

[Ultimate_Game]

50 minutes ago, Tillu said:

Every Pakistani fixer got a second chance except Danish Kaneria.

 

We know the real reason... the same one which forced Yusuf Youhana to become Mohamad Yusuf

[Ultimate_Game]

No point in listening to ravings of lunatics such as Basit Ali or any of their ex-cricketers. As the saying goes "chor ko sab chor lagte hain". Nearly every Pak cricketer was either involved in fixing or has been accused of one.

 

Hearing all these fixing claims one would think that Pak was some invincible team and the only reason they lost was that they fixed matches. In reality they've lost to everyone and are the first Test team to lose to every Test nation at home. As another saying goes "haalat bhikariyon wali aur shauk nawabon waale" 

[Lord]

old news

 

by default consider every Pak player as fixer unless proven otherwise

[tapandrun]

same guy who accused ind team of losing on purpose in that odi wc match against eng ????

[RizBarKhan]

We call it tanking in American sports, it’s not fixing as he wasn’t paid to throwaway a game nor benefited any bookies. Many teams have done this in pro sports to strategically knock out an opponent they don’t like, India has done it a few times to Pakistan in the past, Hazlewood suggested Australia could’ve done the same to England in the recent t20 World Cup and the ICC didn’t speak out on it, so there doesn’t seem to be a legality issue. 

Edited September 14, 2024 by RizBarKhan

[singhvivek141]

12 hours ago, Tillu said:

Every Pakistani fixer got a second chance except Danish Kaneria.

Why would they give "second chance" to a non-believer.

For their radicalized society, being born in a different faith itself is a crime. How can they tolerate someone to become a world class spinner overshadowing their "believer" match fixers.

[Tillu]

40 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said:

Why would they give "second chance" to a non-believer.

For their radicalized society, being born in a different faith itself is a crime. How can they tolerate someone to become a world class spinner overshadowing their "believer" match fixers.

 

Yeah that's why he is overly critical of PCB and it's players. They never gave him a second chance to redeem himself. Today so many fixers past and present are seen in executive roles like coaches, selectors etc. They never gave him that opportunity.

[jf1gp_1]

what did Sania Mirza see in him ?

[Ultimate_Game]

On 9/13/2024 at 8:46 PM, RizBarKhan said:

We call it tanking in American sports, it’s not fixing as he wasn’t paid to throwaway a game nor benefited any bookies. Many teams have done this in pro sports to strategically knock out an opponent they don’t like, India has done it a few times to Pakistan in the past, Hazlewood suggested Australia could’ve done the same to England in the recent t20 World Cup and the ICC didn’t speak out on it, so there doesn’t seem to be a legality issue. 

 

Yup sure, Pak "tanked" matches against B'desh, Afg, US, Ireland, Zim etc. In fact they took tanking to a new level by getting white-washed at home to B'desh 

 

Hilarious to know that madrassa educated inbreds think that Pak are world-beaters and plumb new depths only due to "tanking"  If this isn't definition of delusion, don't know what is