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Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (Urdu: سرفراز نواز ملک) (born December 1, 1948, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer turned politician who pioneered reverse swing in cricket and passed it onto later Pakistani bowlers.[2]

He played in 55 Tests and 45 ODIs from 1969 to 1984.

He contested successfully for membership of provincial assembly of Punjab in 1985 and remained Member( MPA )for 3 years.

His greatest bowling performance came in a Test match against Australia in 1979 in Melbourne when he took nine wickets in an innings. This included a remarkable spell of 33 deliveries in which he captured 7 wickets for 1 run.

In the very next match, Javed Miandad successfully appealed for handled the ball against Australian opener Andrew Hilditch - Hilditch was given out 'handled the ball.' The batsman picked up the ball returned from a fielder in rather a friendly way. An appeal was made and he was given out. In the same match fast bowler Hurst ran out Sikander, at the non-striker's end when he was backing up while the bowler had completed the delivery. [3][4] In the 1980s, Sarfraz married the film actress, Rani.

Battle against Match Fixing

When Bob Woolmer was killed in Jamaica, Sarfaraz Nawaz was the first person who said, even before the postmortem, that he was murdered and linked it to corruption in cricket raising his concern for safety of Pakistani Cricketers in West Indies.He claimed Bob Woolmer and Inzamam were getting threats from the bookies without naming his sources.He requested Scoltand Yard to send their invesitigators and acknowledged his concerns about the credibility of jamaican police,he also feared the match Pakistan lost against West Indies was fixed and called for a review of video footage where the body language of players showed they were not trying to win.

Later Sarfraz insisted that Woolmer's murder in a Kingston hotel on March 18 was linked to match fixing and the former player also offered his help to track the gang of bookies

"I know five bookies made their way to the West Indies. I can help trace them. Perhaps we can even get some clues from the players," Sarfraz told 'The Sun', adding "Woolmers death is connected with the match-fixing mafia.".[5] The 59-year-old former pacer alleged that Pakistan's matches in the World Cup were rigged.

"I believe the Pakistan World Cup games were fixed. There is a dark side to cricket. The game got on top of it for a while but it has never really been stamped out," he said. [6]

In Pakistan most of the cricket fans view him as an honest cricketer defending the game where illegal match fixing mafia,a billion dollar industry is trying to control the game and silence opposition by any means where someme,specially his rivals view him as a conpisracy theorist with little credibility.

External links

Sarfraz Nawaz at ESPNcricinfo

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 The 59-year-old former pacer alleged that Pakistan's matches in the World Cup were rigged.
-"I believe the Pakistan World Cup games were fixed. There is a dark side to cricket. The game got on top of it for a while but it has never really been stamped out," he said.* http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007150866,00.html
+"I believe the Pakistan World Cup games were fixed. There is a dark side to cricket. The game got on top of it for a while but it has never really been stamped out," he said. [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007150866,00.html]
 In Pakistan most of the cricket fans view him as an honest cricketer defending the game where illegal [[match fixing]] [[mafia]],a billion dollar industry is trying to control the game and silence opposition by any means where someme,specially his rivals view him as a [[conpisracy theorist]] with little credibility.
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