Re: Asif CONFIRMED as player with illegal substance in IPL
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he will appear in front of the drugs tribunal on the serious charges of not sharing his drugs with them.
Frustrated Asif wants clarity on playing status
Mohammad Asif, the Pakistan fast bowler, wants a quick resolution to his playing status, which is effectively in limbo after he tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone during the IPL last year.
“Everyone knows that I am not being allowed to play cricket for the past seven months and I haven’t been banned either,” Asif told a Pakistani news channel. "I am not sure what I should do. They should either ban me or clear my name so that I can return to play cricket.
“Everyone knows without cricket I am nothing. It is on hold for the past seven months and it is only one-way traffic. I am getting no response either from the board or IPL.”
SOURCE: Cricinfo - Frustrated Asif wants clarity on playing status
Another news which came couple of days ago
PCB seeks legal opinion on Asif’s suspension
As pressure mounts from the sidelined Mohammad Asif, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sought legal and expert advice on how to keep the suspension on the paceman, who is contemplating legal action against his suspension.
Sources in the PCB confirmed that the Board has sought advice from doping experts Dr Waqar Ahmed and Dr Danish Zaheer on how they can clear Asif, who is under suspension since he was named as the player who failed a dope test in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in July 2008. Since then Asif has been suspended from playing all cricket for and in Pakistan.
SOURCE: PCB seeks legal opinion on Asifs suspension | News - CRICKET NIRVANA - Soul of Indian Cricket
If we recall Dr Waqar Ahmed and Dr Danish Zaheer have been part of the 2 tribunals set up by the PCB back in 2006 for Shoaib Akhtar and Asif . Dr. Ahmed was part of the 1st tribunal which declared Asif and Akhtar guilty while Dr. Zaheer was part of th second tribunal which reversed this decision. Dr Zaheer who is associated with the WADA and the Asian Sports Medicine Association has recently said that Asif can be cleared because of the discrepency in the sample findings.