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Full name Saleem Malik
Born April 16, 1963, Lahore, Punjab
Current age 45 years 99 days
Major teams Pakistan,Essex,Habib Bank Limited,Lahore,Sargodha
Also known as Slim
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm slow-medium, Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
103
154
22
5768
237
43.69
15
29
7
65
0
ODIs
283
256
38
7170
102
32.88
9383
76.41
5
47
81
0
First-class
269
417
56
16586
237
45.94
43
81
167
0
List A
426
385
61
11856
138
36.59
12
78
141
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
103
30
734
414
5
1/3
1/3
82.80
3.38
146.8
0
0
0
ODIs
283
120
3505
2959
89
5/35
5/35
33.24
5.06
39.3
1
1
0
First-class
269
5784
3283
93
5/19
35.30
3.40
62.1
4
0
List A
426
5745
4696
160
5/35
5/35
29.35
4.90
35.9
3
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Mar 5-10, 1982 scorecard
Last Test
India v Pakistan at Kolkata, Feb 16-20, 1999 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v West Indies at Sydney, Jan 12, 1982 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Pakistan at Manchester, Jun 8, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1978/79 - 1999/00
List A span
1980/81 - 1999/00
Profile
Saleem Malik was many things: a gifted, wristy, square-of-the-wicket batsman; the first man who really got on top of Shane Warne, in Pakistan in 1994-95; a fine overseas player for Essex (where he became known as "Slim") in 1991, if less so later; and an influential captain of Pakistan. Unfortunately his role in cricket did not end there. He became the first player to be banned - from all cricket - for match-fixing, when Justice Qayyum's inquiry found him guilty. Warne and Mark Waugh also testified that Malik had tried to bribe them to lose the Karachi Test of 1994-95 (which Australia did, by one wicket). His protestations of innocence never received widespread sympathy, and he will be well remembered for the wrong reasons. Scyld Berry (June 2002)
