Pakistan lifts ban on cricketer Shoaib Malik

Former captain Shoaib Malik Philippines is available in the Asian Cup next month and the Saturday tour of England after a judge recommended his lift the ban on Discipline offense.

Earlier this year, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Malik banned for one year of the national squad and fined him 2 million rupees ($ 23,270) for breaches of discipline during the tour.

PCB, to punish the six other players who participated in the tour in the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and Australia, especially after Pakistan lost all three Tests and five one-day game in Australia in December and January.

Penalty is the retired judge to review the PCB chairman Ijaz told the parliamentary committee seat last week that its board will accept any outcome of the judges.

PCB lawyer Talib Rizvi told AFP on Saturday, "the arbitrator Justice Malik Irfan Qadir has lifted the ban a year and has also fallen by half a million rupees fine imposed on Malik."