Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Saleem Malik was many things: a gifted, wristy, square-of-the-wicket batsman; the first man who really got on top of Shane Warne, in Pakistan in 1994-95; a fine oversees player for Essex (where he became known as "Slim") in 1991, if less so later; and an influential captain of Pakistan. Unfortunately his role in cricket did not end there. He became the first player to be banned - from all cricket - for match-fixing, when Justice Qayyum's inquiry found him guilty. Warne and Mark Waugh also testified that Malik had tried to bribe them to lose the Karachi Test of 1994-95 (which Australia did, by one wicket). His protestations of innocence never received widespread sympathy, and he will be well remembered for the wrong reasons.
Full name : Saleem Malik
Born : April 16, 1963, Lahore, Punjab
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Test debut : Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi - Mar 5-10, 1982
Last Test : India v Pakistan at Kolkata - Feb 16-20, 1999
ODI debut : Pakistan v West Indies at Sydney - Jan 12, 1982
Last ODI : India v Pakistan at Manchester - Jun 8, 1999
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
