Ata-ur-Rehman (Urdu: عطا الرحمن; born 28 March 1975) is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 13 Test matches and 30 One Day International (ODIs) between 1992 and 1996.
A lanky right-arm fast medium bowler with good line and length and the ability to move the old ball,[1] Ata-ur-Rehman was only 17, when he made his international debut for Pakistan on their 1992 tour of England.
[3] In 1998 Ata-ur-Rehman claimed that Wasim Akram had paid him 100,000 Pakistani rupees to bowl badly in a one-day match held at Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 1994.
He had met Wasim Akram in England and maintained that he was threatened with dire consequences, leading him to change his story and sign a second affidavit in London.
[4] Some reports suggest that the feeling persisted that Ata-ur-Rehman and the former Pakistan captain Salim Malik, who was also banned on the recommendation on the commission, had 'taken the fall' for match fixing because they were expendable.