Cricket: Pakistan mulling Malik batting coach bid

KARACHI: Pakistan cricket chiefs have made no decision yet on disgraced former captain Salim Malik’s bid to become the national side’s batting coach. The 49-year-old Malik last week applied for the post, saying he was under no bar after a Pakistani court lifted his life ban for match-fixing in October 2008, though the sport’s governing body has not publicly endorsed the ruling. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spokesman confirmed Malik had applied. “The committee will assess the credentials in a similar way as they assess the others who have applied for the job and in Malik’s case they will also check whether he is eligible to take a cricket-related job,” said the spokesman.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30^th, 2012.