#wasim akram

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The Justice Qayyum Report — Pakistan's Match-Fixing Reckoning, May 2000

Pakistan

2000-05-23

Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum, a Lahore High Court judge, was appointed in September 1998 to investigate match-fixing allegations against the Pakistan team. Over 13 months he heard nearly 70 witnesses including Mark Taylor, Shane Warne, Tim May, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Salim Malik. The report was completed in October 1999 but only published on May 23, 2000 — banning Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman for life and fining Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmed, Inzamam, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar.

#pakistan#match-fixing#salim-malik

🚨Serious

Wasim Akram Match Fixing Allegations

Pakistan vs Various

1 May 2000

Pakistan legend Wasim Akram was named in the Justice Qayyum report as being unable to be exonerated from match-fixing allegations, though he escaped a ban.

#wasim akram#pakistan#qayyum report

🔥Serious

Bangladesh Shock Pakistan — Northampton, 1999 World Cup

Bangladesh vs Pakistan

1999-05-31

On May 31, 1999, Bangladesh — playing in their debut World Cup — beat tournament favourites Pakistan by 62 runs at Northampton. Khaled Mahmud (3/31 and 27 with the bat) was Player of the Match. The result remains shrouded in match-fixing suspicion that Pakistan's later Justice Qayyum report partially supported.

#bangladesh#pakistan#northampton

⭐Serious

Saeed Anwar 113* — Manchester Semi-Final, 1999 World Cup

Pakistan vs New Zealand

1999-06-16

On June 16, 1999, Saeed Anwar carried his bat through Pakistan's innings, scoring 113 not out off 148 balls to set up a nine-wicket win over New Zealand at Old Trafford and put Pakistan into the World Cup final. It was his second hundred in successive World Cup matches, after 103 against Zimbabwe four days earlier — a feat previously achieved only by Mark Waugh in 1996.

#saeed-anwar#pakistan#new-zealand

🔥Serious

Wasim and Waqar's Reverse-Swing Tour of England — Cheats or Pioneers? 1992

England vs Pakistan

1992-08-22

During Pakistan's 1992 tour of England, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis took 41 wickets between them with reverse-swing bowling that English batters and tabloid press could not understand. Pakistan won the series 2-1; English newspapers accused them of ball-tampering and the row poisoned England-Pakistan relations for a decade.

#wasim-akram#waqar-younis#pakistan

⭐Explosive

Cornered Tigers Crowned — Pakistan's 1992 World Cup Final Triumph

Pakistan vs England

1992-03-25

On March 25, 1992, Pakistan beat England by 22 runs at the MCG to lift their first cricket World Cup. Imran Khan's 72 and Wasim Akram's match-defining all-round performance (33 with the bat, 3/49 with the ball, including the wickets of Lamb and Lewis with consecutive deliveries) sealed it. Imran retired immediately afterwards.

#imran-khan#pakistan#england

⭐Moderate

Wasim Akram's Test Debut — Auckland, January 1985

New Zealand, Pakistan

1985-01-25

An 18-year-old Wasim Akram, plucked from the BCCP nets by Javed Miandad, took 10 for 128 in his second Test against New Zealand at Auckland — the start of one of the great fast-bowling careers.

#wasim-akram#pakistan#new-zealand

⭐Serious

Reverse Swing Emerges — Sarfraz, Imran and the Pakistani Revolution

Pakistan

1980-01-01

Through the 1980s, a generation of Pakistani fast bowlers — Sarfraz Nawaz, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis — perfected and exported reverse swing, the technique that would dominate Test cricket for the next two decades.

#reverse-swing#pakistan#sarfraz-nawaz