Five-year ban spells the end for Akhtar
April 3, 2008 |11:12 | Players By : Team X
THE tempestuous international career of Shoaib Akhtar is over. The 32-year-old paceman was last night banned for five-years by the Pakistan Cricket Board - essentially a death sentence to his Test and one-day career.
Akhtar received the ban for publicly criticising the PCB over contracts while serving a two-year probationary period for hitting teammate Mohammad Asif with a bat before last year's Twenty20 World Cup.
Akhtar is free to play in the Indian Premier League and will likely pursue a Bollywood acting career.
Board chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf said the suspension had been imposed on the recommendation of the PCB disciplinary committee, and the paceman had the right to lodge an appeal. "The board has lost confidence in Shoaib Akhtar and therefore felt that his presence in the field was damaging to the Pakistan team, for Pakistan players and for the image of Pakistan cricket," Ashraf said.
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April 3, 2008 |18:04
asslam_o_alikunm to al l mai kheti hoon bord na pehly bar aik bohat zabardast fisla kia hai or afsoos k humare qoom ko ache bore ki tameez khatam hoti ja rahi ahi or wo pher nainsafi kar rahi k akhtar ko bacha rahi hai agrr mai bord ki chairmen hoti to mai os per life bain lagati koin k wo bohat badtammez hai ofsos ka jab kuch janthe howae bhi humare qoom pherr andhi ho rahe hai os na inzi bahi k sath younis bahi or to or bob jo k bohat acha insan tha os ka sath tahperr mara asif ko bat k sath mara agrr os pa bain na lagtha to kal ko pher os ko dora partha or wo kisi ko jan say mar detha or urdupoint wallooon ko kehna chaoon gi ka wo ache bora ki tameez karna sekh lain pherr news dain or doctor sahab app akli nahi hain is jang app cache hain mai or jo bhi pakistani cricket ko pakistan ko traqi parr lay jana chatha hai to wo app k sath hai sohaib k sath nahi allah blessed with u
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