{"id":9407,"date":"2006-12-11T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/shoaib-and-asif-need-match-practice\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:51:55","slug":"shoaib-and-asif-need-match-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/shoaib-and-asif-need-match-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib and Asif need match practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Woolmer halts duo\u2019s return to first team<\/h3>\n<div><strong>BOWLERS Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif won\u2019t make a return to the first team anytime soon despite having their drugs ban overturned, coach Bob Woolmer has said.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The duo, who had drug bans overturned by an appeal panel, will need match practice and will not feature in Pakistan\u2019s current series against the West Indies. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Both Akhtar and Asif trained with the Pakistan team ahead of the teams third one-day match. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Of course their return is good for the team and I hope everything goes well for them\u201d, Woolmer said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>I don&#8217;t see them playing in this West Indies series because they need match practice, but you never know. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Akhtar told me he needs a month and Asif too needs time so they must play some domestic matches. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Their return will certainly boost our bowling.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Akhtar and Asif, banned for two years and one year respectively in November after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone, won their appeals against the punishments on Tuesday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woolmer halts duo\u2019s return to first team BOWLERS Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif won\u2019t make a return to the first team anytime soon despite having their drugs ban overturned, coach Bob Woolmer has said. &#13; The duo, who had drug bans overturned by an appeal panel, will need match practice and will not feature in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}