LAHORE, July 20: Disgraced former Pakistan cricket captain Salim Malik went to the Supreme Court Saturday to challenge a life ban imposed on him for match fixing.

“We have filed an appeal though the Lahore bench hoping that the ban will be lifted,” Malik’s lawyer, Raja Jahanzeb Akhtar, told AFP.

The case may be taken up after August when the court reconvenes after its summer holidays.

An earlier appeal against the ban was rejected by Lahore High court in May this year.

The 37-year-old Malik was banned following a match fixing inquiry conducted by Lahore High court judge Malik Mohammad Qayyum between September 1998 and October 1999.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) implemented the recommendations made by Justie Qayyum and banned Malik from all international and domestic cricket in May 2000.

“Malik was disappointed by the ban and the rejection of the appeal, but he would not give up until his name is cleared so that he could restart a new life,” Akhtar said.

Australian trio Shane Warne, Tim May and Mark Waugh were the first to blow the whistle on Malik. The trio alleged Malik offered them bribes to under perform during Australia’s tour of Pakistan in 1994-95.

During the same season, team mate Rashid Latif and Aamir Sohail also accused Malik of wrong doing when Pakistan toured South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Malik is one of two captains serving a life ban for match fixing.

India’s Mohammad Azharuddin is the other skipper banned for life for taking money from bookies to throw matches. Former South African captain Hansie Cronje who died in a plane crash recently had also been given a life ban.—AFP