{"id":9604,"date":"2008-06-20T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/asif-im-innocent\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:13:29","slug":"asif-im-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/asif-im-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Asif: \u2018I\u2019m Innocent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Bowler denies taking drugs<\/h3>\n<div><strong>FREED Pakistan bowler Mohammed Asif has denied taking drugs after he was released from a Dubai detention facility where he was held for suspected possession of an illegal substance.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 25-year-old was held for 19 days in Dubai before authorities dropped the case against him.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>On his return to Pakistan, Asif maintained his innocence. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I did not use any banned substance. During the Indian Premier League, I underwent two doping tests, and cleared both of them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If I had been tested positive, the ICC would not have cleared me.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed the case against Asif has been dropped. A press release released by the PCB stated: &#8220;The drug tests conducted on Asif during the investigations in Dubai were clear and negative for any contraband substance.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The PCB also revealed they would be conducting their own inquiry into Asif\u2019s detention. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowler denies taking drugs FREED Pakistan bowler Mohammed Asif has denied taking drugs after he was released from a Dubai detention facility where he was held for suspected possession of an illegal substance. &#13; The 25-year-old was held for 19 days in Dubai before authorities dropped the case against him. &#13; On his return to [&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-9604","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\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/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=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}