Just read it on bbc site. So no bevan, no lehman and now NO SHANE WARNE against pakistan. ALLRITE :))
Yes, the natioanl TV has just told that Warne is already on his way to Australia and soon a press conference at Melbourne Airport is to follow.
He has been banned because he failed a drug test.
Now 3 reasons for pakistan to win
Bevan
Lehman
Warne
Yah it is confirmed, just wastxhing it on CNN ........
Sad news for Cricket and Australia, Good news for Pakistan
Here’s the link:
I can buy the claim that his use of above mentioned drug was indeed “inadvertent” as it is hard to conceive that a spin bowler can improve his performance by using drugs. His absence may put them under severe psychological pressure, but Australia, even without Shane Warne, are a formidable presence.
What makes me sad is that they now have an excuse to offer in case they lose this match/world cup. I was so looking forward to seeing a full-strength Australian side getting humiliated. I am guilty of excessive praying :bummer:
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but Australia, even without Shane Warne, are still a formidable presence.
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ummm, I really doubt that Zaalim, They are formidable but Warne was a major hope for them, I feel for him though, he maybe didnt know.
which brings to the focus a basic question -
are dope tests relevant in cricket?
can drugs enhance a performance of batting maestros like Sachin Tendulkar , Brian Lara , Inzy ? Or can they help spinners turn the ball the extra mile ? Or can they help Shoaib Akhtar to bowl deadly yorkers ? Or can they help fielding?
I feel cricket being a sport where apart from brute power you need some coordination as well...
(unlike athletics where drug abuse can take your performances to diff levels)
Warne fails second test
Shane Warne now faces a two-year ban
Australian spinner Shane Warne has failed a second test for a banned substance.
The 33-year-old will appear before the Australian Cricket Board’s anti-doping committee on Friday morning and faces a possible two-year ban if found guilty of a doping offence.
Warne, who is his country’s leading wicket-taker in Tests and one-day internationals, withdrew from the Cricket World Cup last week after announcing his A sample had tested positive for a banned diuretic.
An Australian team source has now told BBC Sport that Warne’s B sample has also tested positive.
The leg spinner has insisted he took a fluid-reducing tablet given to him by his mother last month without knowing it contained a banned substance.
BBC Health: Diuretics explained
Warne will go before a three-man hearing on Friday. Justice Glen Williams, of the Queensland State Court of Appeal, will chair the ACB anti-doping committee, with former Test off-spinner Peter Taylor and medical specialist Susan White completing the panel.
The hearing will be at the ACB’s headquarters in Jolimont and will start about 2130 local time.
Warne had expected the World Cup to be his swansong after announcing he would quit one-day cricket once the tournament was over.
But if he is banned for two years, it would likely signal the end of his international career.
http://www.wisden.com/news/news.asp?colid=44121197
Analysis of Shane Warne’s positive drug test indicates that he must have taken more than one banned diuretic tablet, according to a report in Melbourne’s Age newspaper.
If that turns out to be true, then it puts paid to Warne’s protestations that he took just one tablet - supplied by his mother - shortly before his comeback match in the first VB Series final at Sydney last month.
The Age quoted a source close to the investigation as saying, “Warne must have taken more than one tablet to get the effect he has registered".
Warne’s solicitor said that he was unaware of the report, while Warne himself was unavailable - his father-in-law told the newspaper that he had “gone underground”.
Asked to comment, Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, ridiculed Warne’s explanation of how the diuretic came to be in his system. "Poisoned by his mother? It is good, very good,” said Pound. “It ranks up there with the one, ‘I got it from the toilet seat’.”
Warne will appear before a three-man hearing on Friday. Justice Glen Williams, of the Queensland State Court of Appeal, will chair the ACB anti-doping committee. Former Test off-spinner Peter Taylor and medical specialist Susan White completing the trio. The hearing will take place at the ACB headquarters in Jolimont.
Hey Warnie is banned for another 12 months!