Cricket: Under-suspicion Malik cleared to play for Pakistan
Posted: 19 August 2011 2209 hrs
LAHORE, Pakistan : Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday cleared former captain Shoaib Malik over allegations of illegal earnings, paving his way for a return to international cricket.
The 29-year-old Malik has not been selected for Pakistan since last summer’s tour of England after he failed to account for money held in an overseas bank account before an integrity committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
The committee had been formed on the directive of the International Cricket Council (ICC) to purge Pakistan cricket of corruption in the wake of a fixing scandal during the team’s tour to England last year.
The spot-fixing case ended in lengthy bans on former Test captain Salman Butt and pacemen Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer.
Malik appeared before the committee on Monday and provided documents to justify the amount in his account.
The committee, chaired by PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, on Friday announced Malik was cleared after a thorough investigation.
“The committee after detailed deliberations has unanimously reached the conclusion that Malik has established that the said deposits in his overseas account did not emanate from any questionable source,” the committee
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