{"id":9488,"date":"2007-10-11T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/10\/11\/shoaib-banned-for-asif-attack\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:34:07","slug":"shoaib-banned-for-asif-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/11\/shoaib-banned-for-asif-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib banned for Asif attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Star given fine and 13-match ban<\/h3>\n
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\"\"SHOAIB Akhtar has been fined and given a 13-match ban as punishment for attacking fellow Pakistan player Mohammed Asif days before the start of the Twenty20 World Cup.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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The fast bowler was fined \u00a328,000 and placed on a two-year probationary period in which any disciplinary breaches could lead to a life ban. <\/div>\n

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Akhtar\u2019s fate was sealed by a three-man disciplinary committee who found him guilty of five breaches of the code of conduct including the spat with Asif, playing in a charity match without permission and making unauthorised press statements. <\/div>\n

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Shafqat Naghmi, the PCB\u2019s chief operating officer said Akhtar\u2019s 13-match ban would include games already played by the team. <\/div>\n

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“We have decided to ban Shoaib for 13 international matches,” Naghmi said.<\/div>\n

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“These include Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 matches. We have upheld the five-match ban given to him by Talat Ali in South Africa [for hitting Asif] and given him an eight-match ban on top of that. We have also fined him Rs3.4 million. The match-ban will run consecutively.” <\/div>\n

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Akhtar will be available for the last ODI against South Africa, but more crucially for the India series straight after. <\/div>\n

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The player said he was keen to put the incident behind him and look forward to the Indian series. <\/div>\n

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\u201cAlthough no cricketer wants to be banned and fined I am happy that the hearing by the Pakistan Cricket Board was carried out fairly and I’m now\u00a0keen to put this behind me, Akhtar said,<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere have been too many controversies in my career and in Pakistan cricket and all I want now is to focus on my cricket and win more matches for my country.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was disappointed not to be able to make my comeback in South Africa for the Twenty20 World Cup so I am especially keen now that if I don’t play against South Africa that I do make the squad for the tour of India.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI didn’t go on\u00a0our last tour to India in 2005 because of fitness so this is a very important trip for me and the team. Hopefully I will be picked and I will be able to make\u00a0some important contributions to the Pakistan team.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Star given fine and 13-match ban SHOAIB Akhtar has been fined and given a 13-match ban as punishment for attacking fellow Pakistan player Mohammed Asif days before the start of the Twenty20 World Cup. The fast bowler was fined \u00a328,000 and placed on a two-year probationary period in which any disciplinary breaches could […]<\/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-9488","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\/9488","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=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/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=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}