New Delhi. According to the big news of the morning, Australia’s legendary bowler Shane Warne, who has always been in the headlines on the cricket field. So there has been discussion of his personal life outside the field as well. Not only this, Warne, who has been in controversies many times during his career, has not been able to completely get rid of his chase even after retirement.
In this sequence, now he himself has made a very sensational claim about match-fixing this time. Yes, according to him, he was offered a bribe during the match against Pakistan.
In fact, according to him, he was asked to perform poorly in a match. At the same time, he disclosed this in the upcoming documentary Shane on Amazon Prime. He has said that on the fourth day of the Test match played against Pakistan (Australia vs Pakistan) in Karachi in 1994, he was offered a bribe of $ 2 lakh 76 thousand and this offer was made by Pakistan captain Salim Malik himself. He came from the front and gave it to them. According to him, Salim Malik told him that, “He has to meet me. Warne said that we were confident that we will beat this host of ours.
If we lose in our own house, then our houses will be burnt.
After this the veteran bowler told him that he also met Malik and both of them sat down and started talking about this match. I told him, “Yes, I think tomorrow we will win. After this the Pakistani cricketer said that we cannot lose. You don’t know that if we lose at home, our houses will be burnt here. Warne said that after this Malik offered me and my teammates a big bribe. Also, I was asked to go wide in the game.”
Later, Warne said that he was shocked and surprised to hear this from Malik. But then he calmly told the Pakistani captain Salim Malik, “No! We will defeat you.” This information was later given to Captain Mark Taylor, Coach Bob Taylor and this matter also reached the match referee. It is to be known that in the year 2000, Malik was also banned for life.