Khalid Latif ( ur, ; born 4 November 1985) is a Pakistani former cricketer who has been banned for five years, for his involvement in

spot-fixing Spot-fixing is illegal activity in a sport in which a specific aspect of a game, unrelated to the final result but upon which a betting market exists, is fixed in an attempt to ensure a certain result in a proposition bet. Examples include someth ...

. A right-handed opening batsman, Latif captained Pakistan in the

2004 U-19 Cricket World Cup The 2004 ICC Under-19 World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament played in Bangladesh from 15 February to 5 March 2004. It was the fifth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup and the first to be held in Bangladesh. The ...

win and the

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bronze medal win.

Career

Khalid Latif was captain of the Pakistani side which won the Under-19 World Cup in 2004. He was the highest scorer for Pakistan at the 2004 U-19 World Cup, scoring 291 runs in eight innings. Latif made his

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(ODI) debut at

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against

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in 2008 and the same year he made his

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debut against Zimbabwe. In November 2009, during the 1st ODI against

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, he scored a patient 64 runs from 112 balls in a 138 runs win at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in

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. In January 2010, during the 5th ODI at

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against

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, Latif was tackled from behind by a spectator who rushed onto the field. The ICC later asked

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for a detailed report into the breach of security. Latif then captained the Pakistan cricket team in the

. He stated that his goal was to help his team win the gold medal in the games. However, he had to settle for a bronze, after losing to Afghanistan in the semi finals. He was selected in the

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squad for the

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. In 2016, Latif scored a fifty in a blistering knock to take his side to victory versus England in the only T20.

2017 Pakistan Super League spot-fixing

On 10 February 2017, he was provisionally suspended under the

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's (PCB) anti-corruption code as part of an ongoing investigation into an organisation's alleged attempts to corrupt the

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. On 18 February, Latif, along with teammate

Sharjeel Khan Sharjeel Khan ( ur, شرجیل خان; born 14 August 1989)
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, was formally charged by the PCB for violating the anti-corruption code. On 20 September, Latif was banned for five years from all forms of cricket in a short verdict announced by a three-man PCB tribunal. He was also fined ₨. 1 million (approx. USD 9,489) and was found guilty of six major breaches of the PCB's anti-corruption code. Latif did not show up to hear the verdict being announced.

Dutch caricature contest

In August 2018, he placed bounty of $24,000 on Dutch politician

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for holding caricature contest depicting

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. The contest is organized by Wilders in Dutch Parliament and will have more than 200 entries, judged by American cartoonist and former Muslim

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