Troubled Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been ordered to explain himself to his country’s cricket board after appearing on a television talk show.
“Under the terms of his contract he can’t appear on any media show without first getting permission from the authorities. He has violated three clauses of his contract,” a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told Reuters.
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When has he not been in trouble?
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It is going more and more downhills with him 
bas karay ab bechara
^ I like your profile pic. I mean the green in the jhanda is the green I like
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I have a serious feeling that PCB is not going to select SA at all now... SA has became a mammoth meat ball by now... Either he reduces his weight and become super fit for a SINGLE match.. Or he keeps on doing what he does best...i.e. out of the team :).
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Wasim Akram is raising the same concerns what I had in my mind… have a look..Shoaib’s international career almost over, says Akram | Pakistan Cricket News | Cricinfo.com
Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram believes fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s international career is virtually over. Akram said the warning bells had been sounded with Shoaib’s omission from Pakistan’s list of probables for the forthcoming Champions Trophy, to be held in South Africa.
“I don’t think he has got a chance, unless and until some miracles happen,” Akram said. “Even though it depends on the captain and selectors, I think Shoaib has fallen out with the selectors and the board itself. The board still supported him and he went to Abu Dhabi and played two of the five games [against Australia] before getting injured again. We all saw that.”
Akram also said the emergence of young fast bowlers like Mohammad Aamer had made Shoaib’s comeback tougher. “I think Pakistan’s bowling unit is doing well and they have to look ahead and think about the future,” he said. “They have to back the youngsters who will do the job for them, even if you look at the 2011 World Cup. Also in this year’s Champions Trophy and the next Twenty20 World Cup, the team would have to rely on the youngsters. I don’t know where you can place Shoaib Akhtar in the current picture of Pakistan cricket.”
Akram predicted a difficult future for Mohammad Asif as well. The 26-year-old fast bowler, however, made the cut for the probables for the Champions Trophy, following a tumultuous two-and-a-half years in which he failed dope tests and was embroiled in a detention case in Dubai.
“My advice to Asif would be - learn from your mistakes. I sincerely hope he learns from the 300 mistakes that he has made in the last two years,” said Akram. “He’s young, talented and one of the best Pakistani bowlers but it will take him some time to return because Aamer is now bowling really well.”
He pointed out that international returns were not easy and cited the cases of Umar Gul and Sohail Tanvir. “Even Sohail Tanvir was struggling in Twenty20,” Akram said. “Umar Gul is phenomenal but I don’t think he bowled well enough in the Test matches [in Sri Lanka]. My advice to Gul is: Twenty20 and ODI are fine but if you are to be recognised as a good bowler you have to do well in Test cricket too.”
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I saw this on TV today, what a suprise right
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which program he came to
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PCB should just drop him once and for all..
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This guy is in trouble from all over… I really believe now, that SA should be told cleanly, that PCB is not going to select him at all… and he is free to become GOD in Australia, which ever country he likes…
now read this for some masala…
Shoaib tried to teach Kolkata bowlers ball-tampering: Buchanan
SYDNEY: One more bad news for Shoaib Akhtar! Former coach of Kolkata Knight Riders John Buchanan of Australia has revealed in his new book that Pakistan’s fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar tried to teach fellow fast bowlers of Knight Riders a few ‘tricks’ during the IPL’s first season.
John Buchanan in his new book ‘The Future of Cricket’ wrote a whole chapter on Shoaib Akhtar, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders in Season One of the Indian Premier League.
The Australian coach said in his book that the Rawalpindi Express had tried to teach ball-tampering to his fellow fast bowlers.
He further said that Shoaib Akhtar told them various methods used by some of his fellow Pakistani fast bowlers.
Buchanan has also wrote in his book that former coach of India Greg Chappell had warned him that Shoaib would be his biggest problem.
John Buchanan further said in his book Shoaib was trying to build a culture within the Knight Riders which he did not like as coach…
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That was a pathetic attempt by Buchanen to sell his book. I am not an Akhtar fan BTW.