Malik offered Warne $200k
Australia spin legend Shane Warne spoke in detail about former Pakistan captain Saleem Malik offering him a bribe to bowl badly in a September 1994 Test between the countries in Karachi.
Speaking to NDTV.com in connection with his recently published autobiography 'No Spin', Warne spoke about one of the earlier incidents of attempted match-fixing in cricket.
"Saleem Malik offered me 200,000 US dollars, he said it will be in my room in half-an-hour if I bowl wide of the off-stump and the match was a draw. That's the bottom line of what he asked,” Warne was quoted by the Indian news website as saying.
While the approach from then Pakistan captain Malik was known since 1995, Warne's latest utterance on the issue revealed the amount that was at stake and the way in which the approach was made. Pakistan eventually won the match by one wicket, chasing 314. Warne took his fourth five-wicket haul in the innings while Malik scored 42.
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