New Delhi:Former Test cricketer Maninder Singh has confessed to consuming cocaine and said he had been taking the banned substance for some time.
Lahore:The Shoaib Akhtar-Mohammad Asif doping saga runs into deeper controversy with a startling revelation that the current Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman had unsuccessfully tried to influence the Anti-Doping Commission verdict, which held the fast-bowling duo guilty of using a banned substance, but got his way in securing them exonerated by the Appellate Tribunal.
Lahore:The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has violated the ICC Anti-doping Code by revealing the names of Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar in the drug scandal before the compeletion of a formal hearing, claims the President of Sports Medicine Association of Pakistan (SMAP).
Lahore:Tainted pace duo of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif may be forgiven if they prove that their positive dope test for nandrolone was a result of mistaken consumption, revealed a member of the PCB Anti-Doping Tribunal.
Lahore:Taking prompt action in the recent doping saga, instead of sweeping the embarrassing issue under the carpet, has brightened Pakistan Cricket Board's image and tainted pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif can look forward to a free, fair trial in the controversy, said PCB Chairman Nasim Ashraf.
Lahore:Taking prompt action in the recent doping saga, instead of sweeping the embarrassing issue under the carpet, has brightened Pakistan Cricket Board's image and tainted pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif can look forward to a free, fair trial in the controversy, said PCB Chairman Nasim Ashraf.
Paarl (South Africa): India's batting mainstay Sachin Tendulkar, perhaps the only batsman to have given Shane Warne "nightmares", said the leg spinner's unceremonious exit from the World Cup was a blow to the defending champions.
Johannesburg: Seeking to downplay Shane Warne's doping scandal, South African skipper Shaun Pollock on Tuesday said the incident should not take away the sheen from the World Cup.
Johannesburg: Australia's star leg spinner Shane Warne faced the end of his glittering career on Tuesday when he failed a drugs test and was banished from his country's World Cup squad.
Johannesburg: Australia's star leg spinner Shane Warne faced the end of his glittering career on Tuesday when he failed a drugs test and was banished from his country's World Cup squad.
