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Just to clear up the situation, Shoaib Malik allowed his side to lose to make a protest against an umpiring decision with regard to slow over rates in an earlier match. He was evidently unaware that his side would have qualified had they won, and thought he was giving a way a match with essentially no meaning, but in the process ensuring that the Lahore Eagles, the team which had benefitted from the earlier over rates decision, would not qualify for the final.