{"id":9662,"date":"2009-01-20T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/20\/asif-released-from-ipl-contract\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:55:35","slug":"asif-released-from-ipl-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/20\/asif-released-from-ipl-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Asif released from IPL contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>I need to focus on Pakistan, says bowler<\/h3>\n<div><strong>PAKISTAN bowler Mohammad Asif has been released from his Indian Premier League contract with the Delhi Daredevils.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The controversial fast bowler, 26, was released from his 650,000 dollar-a-year contract after serving just one year of his three-year deal in the Twenty20 tournament.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Due to personal reasons I&#8217;m having to take this step, and definitely it has not been easy requesting for this as I still have a contract valid for another two seasons, with lucrative financial benefits,&#8221; Asif said. &#8220;Currently I&#8217;m under a tremendous amount of pressure at all ends and need to regain my focus on resolving matters by addressing them individually. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;My only purpose and wish is to play for my nation Pakistan again, and for that I need to disengage from any other cricket engagements and work towards this.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Asif is due to appear before an IPL drugs tribunal in Mumbai on Saturday after testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone during the tournament&#8217;s opening season last April-May.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Pakistan Cricket Board has suspended Asif from all forms of cricket in the country pending the outcome of the inquiry. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to focus on Pakistan, says bowler PAKISTAN bowler Mohammad Asif has been released from his Indian Premier League contract with the Delhi Daredevils. &#13; The controversial fast bowler, 26, was released from his 650,000 dollar-a-year contract after serving just one year of his three-year deal in the Twenty20 tournament. &#13; &#8220;Due to personal [&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-9662","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\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/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=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}