Shoaib Akhtar given five-year ban

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Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been banned for five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board following a disciplinary hearing in Rawalpindi.

The 32-year-old, who was on a two-year probation for attacking team-mate Mohammad Asif with a bat, was charged with publicly criticising the PCB.

Chairman Nasif Ashraf said: "The board has lost confidence in Shoaib Akhtar.

"We therefore felt that his presence in the field was damaging to the team and the image of Pakistan cricket."
 
Wa?
Banned 5 years for insulting the board.......

I guess he will be county cricket full time now.
 
He future lies in twenty20 in India, and county cricket for rest of the season.

Edit: Also remembered he signed for some bollywood films.
 
I lost all respect for him when he got done for drugs.

Total twat IMO.
 
I don't know whats more shocking, the story or the picture going with it on Sky Sports website.








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:lol: at 3Sixty.

Regarding Shoaib, i geuss it's a shame really, very talented, and probably should of achieved more.
The Rawalpindi express has reached it's final destination :cool:
 
Shoaib set to fight ban in court

Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar will go to court if necessary to challenge a ban ruling him out of international and domestic cricket for five years.

The fast bowler, 32, was banned at a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday for publicly criticising the Pakistan Cricket Board.

"If the board rejects my appeal I will go to the High Court and Supreme Court to get justice," said the bowler.

"I haven't murdered anyone, so why such a harsh penalty?"

Shoaib, who was mobbed by fans during Wednesday news conference, added: "I will definitely be filing the appeal in the next two days and will follow the PCB procedure.

"I feel I have been personally victimised by the board. If I have committed any violation of discipline I should be told about it."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/7326396.stm

Pakistan's 1992 World Cup winning captain, Imran Khan, supports the view that Shoaib was harshly treated by the board.

"It is totally unacceptable. This ban, it literally ends his [international] career," Imran said during a TV interview.

"The board must keep in mind that we also need to win matches and keep our pride in international cricket."


Another former Pakistan captain, Zaheer Abbas, said the absence of Shoaib would only weaken the national team.

"He had some two years of cricket left in him and we should have taken advantage of him, while maintaining discipline," he said.

"I don't know what these people are trying to do. The cricketers are not schoolboys to be treated like this."


Former Pakistan batsman Rameez Raja, however, insisted the ban was justified.

"No one is bigger than the game and he had it coming because of his attitude problems," Rameez commented.
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I agree, way too harsh. 5 years? What's the point? He wouldn't have played more than 2 max anyway plus he's very injury prone now.

Idiots. If they wanted to get rid of him the time was after the drugs issue and then when he hit Asif with a bat in training but no just like each time they realise he is too good to let go so they let him off and now they try and correct it with this.

Anyway he was up there with the best bowlers of his generation and was great to watch. Had lots of injury problems of late, the last time he really performed was against England - demolished em' with some great yorkers there - the only buzzing bowler Pak have had after Akhtar and Younis :drool:.

Oh well its better for the squad morale I guess.
 
He's done bloody well to get a gig in Bollywood, what, with being an ugly cnut and all.
 
One of the most overrated cricketers of the last ten years, glad to see the back of him.
 
redender said:
Yes, that he cheats. Don't start playing the racism card chief.
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redender said:
This has gone un-mentioned throughout.

Everyone knows the Pakistani's cheat, they have in the past... and they still do. I suppose Hair can count himself lucky he didn't piss off the Indians - they'd have brought back capital punishment for him.
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Are you sure other nations how never cheated?
 
Sultan said:
Are you sure other nations how never cheated?
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Well I know it goes on FAR more on the sub-continent!

My comments re: were simply outlining the fact that India have a massive influence on the ICC, as shown with the whole Hardhajan fiasco. Just because you account for 80% of the games wealth, does not mean your players shouldn't be brought to task.

The pakistani's do cheat, everybody knows it, a friend who plays domestic cricket says it's rife even at Test Match level, Asif being the main culprit.
 
Well in Pakistan case, i remember Afridi cheated as well when he was scruffing up the pitch with the studs in his shoes.

Also i remember Dravid was fined for rubbing sticky saliva onto ball.

I am sure there are such cases against many players in the past, but you cannot just point your finger at one country and label them as cheaters due to individual in the team.
 
Wit Tanker said:
Well in Pakistan case, i remember Afridi cheated as well when he was scruffing up the pitch with the studs in his shoes.

Also i remember Dravid was fined for rubbing sticky saliva onto ball.

I am sure there are such cases against many players in the past, but you cannot just point your finger at one country and label them as cheaters due to individual in the team.
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Theres been so many cases in the past. A lot of match fixing in particular
 
Pakistan were not guilty in the 2006 series. No evidence of ball-tampering was produced. Neither Hair nor any official came up with a name. The 26 cameras showed no suspicious activity with the ball during all of England innings.

Do you remember the false accusations from the English media who alleged, without proof that Akram and Younis cheated to make the ball reverse swing?

Finally, there have been cricketers from other countries guilty too. John Lever applied Vaseline against India and Atherton was caught rubbing sawdust on the ball in a test match.

Pakis and Indians eh?
 
Sultan said:
Pakistan were not guilty in the 2006 series. No evidence of ball-tampering was produced. Neither Hair nor any official came up with a name. The 26 cameras showed no suspicious activity with the ball during all of England innings.

Do you remember the false accusations from the English media who alleged - without proof that Akram and Younis cheated to make the ball reverse swing?

Finally, there have been cricketers from other countries guilty too. John Lever applied Vaseline against India and Atherton was caught rubbing sawdust on the ball in a test match.

Pakis and Indians eh?
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No need for that term.

There's been many many instances of the Pakistani's cheating mate. Atherton made a bad judgement, ball tamering or not, he served his ban. (I dare say if it was Pakistan this wouldn't have been forthcoming). Remember Moin at Karachi? Time wasting, then moaning about the light?

Take nothing away from Akram & Younis, they were greats of the game, but they were the best exponents of ball tampering the game as ever seen. Martin Crowe said on match commentary recently that when the Kiwi's travelled to Pakistan, the ball tamering was so bad, that they resorted to ball tamering themselves just to level it up!
 
I was going to say something before as well but I can't be bothered with the argument.

The person who said match-fixing, well really it isn't all one country is it? Many have done the same. The biggest known person probably that SA captain a few years back. Drugs and other mischief, Warne? Are the Aussies cheats for their consistent bullying tactics...

It wasn't that long ago their was a meeting in English county cricket looking at the rules, a few years back. It wasn't just Vaseline, it was lip balm, they even used sweets / saliva as well to rub into the ball.

All that Hair stuff came about because of that exact attitude in your post and Inzaman wasn't having any of it. Am not saying they don't cheat but their was no evidence that time around. By the way Hair has a lot more history concerning these sub-continent sides.

All the old skool players used to do this stuff, so much so, it was a well known and normal thing but attitudes have changed now (I think). Some have even said it should be allowed back seen as all the pitches are favoured to batters but that's another debate.
 
redender said:
No need for that term.

There's been many many instances of the Pakistani's cheating mate. Atherton made a bad judgement, ball tamering or not, he served his ban. (I dare say if it was Pakistan this wouldn't have been forthcoming). Remember Moin at Karachi? Time wasting, then moaning about the light?

Take nothing away from Akram & Younis, they were greats of the game, but they were the best exponents of ball tampering the game as ever seen. Martin Crowe said on match commentary recently that when the Kiwi's travelled to Pakistan, the ball tamering was so bad, that they resorted to ball tamering themselves just to level it up!
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You call Athertons cheating bad Judgement - nice.

John Lever demolished India's innings by applying Vaseline.

Get me evidence of Akram and Younis' alleged cheating.

The light was a danger. The game should have been called off as a draw.

Pakistani and Indian cricketers also served their ban, when found guilty.
 
Sultan said:
You call Athertons cheating bad Judgement - nice.

John Lever demolished India's innings by applying Vaseline.

Get me evidence of Akram and Younis' alledged cheating.

The light was a danger. The game should have been called off as a draw.
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Well, there's the bias right there!

Atherton's was silly, once can be deemed as a misjudgement - but repetetive offending not so.

C'mon admit it, bottle tops were rife in the 80's Pakistan team!

In the second Test at Lahore, Martin Crowe remembered that he encountered reverse-swing for the first time on his way to a second-innings hundred. "Six supposed outswingers [from Wasim Akram] suddenly became six lethal inswingers. I had never seen it before and I became curious." During the innings, Crowe dropped a delivery from Abdul Qadir at his feet and bent down to pick it up and lob it back to the bowler. "It was totally mutilated on one side with two or three deep scratches gouged out," he said. "I complained to the umpires but they did nothing."

Later in the day the ball went out of shape and was changed. As it was thrown to the boundary by the umpires, Willie Watson and Mark Priest rushed to intercept it. "It bore no resemblance to a cricket ball," Crowe claimed. The pair took it back to the changing-room but, so Crowe noted, Intikhab Alam, the Pakistan manager, came in and took it and it was never seen again.

Ian Taylor, the New Zealand manager, made an official complaint at the end of the match, but it was dismissed with the officials stating that the condition of the ball resulted from a rough outfield and advertising hoardings. "We accepted that Pakistan were the better team," Crowe added, "but we were not going to accept what they were doing with the ball."

Chris Pringle, at the time New Zealand's opening bowler, decided to take the law into his own hands. "There was something going on," he recalled in his autobiography Save The Last Ball For Me. "And whether what I did was the right or wrong way to make the ball look as it did in the next Test, I had to try it."
 
Regardless of this ball tampering talk, that's not why Aktar has been banned for a ridiculously long period. When he cheated, he got a 2 game ban. Because he publically criticised the PCB, he gets 5 years?! Hang on a fecking minute, that's not how it works. Sure they can perhaps not select him again, that's their perogative. But to ban him in this way? Not a chance, it won't stick. They've simply made themselves look particularly touchy and weak, and a bit of a joke to outsiders
 
Brad said:
Regardless of this ball tampering talk, that's not why Aktar has been banned for a ridiculously long period. When he cheated, he got a 2 game ban. Because he publically criticised the PCB, he gets 5 years?! Hang on a fecking minute, that's not how it works. Sure they can perhaps not select him again, that's their perogative. But to ban him in this way? Not a chance, it won't stick. They've simply made themselves look particularly touchy and weak, and a bit of a joke to outsiders
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But does it surprise you? Nope.
 
Brad said:
Regardless of this ball tampering talk, that's not why Aktar has been banned for a ridiculously long period. When he cheated, he got a 2 game ban. Because he publically criticised the PCB, he gets 5 years?! Hang on a fecking minute, that's not how it works. Sure they can perhaps not select him again, that's their perogative. But to ban him in this way? Not a chance, it won't stick. They've simply made themselves look particularly touchy and weak, and a bit of a joke to outsiders
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That's fair Brad.

They should never have let him back after the drugs fiasco, or after smacking Asif with a bat.

To be fair to Pakistani authorities, he was on probation/final warning.
 
redender said:
There's been many many instances of the Pakistani's cheating mate. Atherton made a bad judgement, ball tamering or not, he served his ban. (I dare say if it was Pakistan this wouldn't have been forthcoming). Remember Moin at Karachi? Time wasting, then moaning about the light?

Take nothing away from Akram & Younis, they were greats of the game, but they were the best exponents of ball tampering the game as ever seen. Martin Crowe said on match commentary recently that when the Kiwi's travelled to Pakistan, the ball tamering was so bad, that they resorted to ball tamering themselves just to level it up!
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when a white man does it its a 'misunderstanding', when a brown man does it he's a 'cheat'. You've just exposed yourself in that simple comment.

Before you fire back, just close your eyes, imagine that Inzamam or Ganguly put his hand in his pocket, took out a substance and started applying it to the ball .... you think either could have got away with claiming that it was to 'dry' his hand, that is was a 'misunderstanding'? DO me a favour!

Oh and while Im on the subject, match fixing and betting, why exactly did Alec Stewert REFUSE POINT BLANK to tour India in 2002? He was fit, in fine form and toured in the season before and the season after. The Indian police said they wanted to have enquiries with him ... he has enevr been back since.

Just all bollocks and propoganda, nothing else
 
sammsky1 said:
when a white man does it, its a 'misunderstanding', when a brown man does it, he's a cheat'. You've just exposed yourself in that simple comment.

Before you fire back, just close your eyes, imagine that Inzamam or Ganguly put his hand in his pocket, took out a substance and started applying it to the ball .... you think either could have got away with claiming that it was to 'dry' his hand, that is was a 'misunderstanding'? DO me a favour!

Oh and while Im on the subject, match fixing and betting, why exactly did Alec Stewert REFUSE POINT BLANK to tour India in 2002? He was fit, in fine form and toured in the season before and the season after. The Indian police said they wanted to have enquiries with him ... he has enevr been back since.

Just all bollocks and propoganda, nothing else
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Michael Atherton is actually a relative of mine, so I guess I've exposed myself as nothing more than loyal!
 
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