Cricket: Pakistan mulling Malik batting coach bid
PCB spokesman confirmed Malik had applied.
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 30th, 2012.
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 30th, 2012.