Justice Qayyum: Pakistan’s match-fixing inquiry dies at age of 79

Pakistan High Court judge Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum. He led the investigation that eventually led to life bans for Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman. And implicated several other Pakistani players in the first wave of match-fixing in the late 1990s and died in the early 2000s. He was 79 years old.

Justice Malik will always be remembered –

Justice Qayyum was a prominent figure in the Pakistan legal community as a senior judge at the Lahore High Court, a former attorney general as well as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.

To the wider world, and certainly to those who play cricket, he will always be remembered as the man who led one of the most comprehensive investigations into match-fixing anywhere, and as the author of the  subsequent report – now known simply as the Qayyum Report.

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Know that who were censured by Justice Malik –

In the report, published after some delay in May 2000. Justice Qayyum banned Malik and Rehman for life from the game. And censured Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar with monetary fines as well as recommendations, in some cases, to limit their involvement in the game.

The report was the result of a year-long inquiry. Between September 1998 and September 1999, held in a court room at the Lahore High Court.