Pakistan players set for dope tests

[King]

Pakistan will conduct dope tests on players included in its 30-man provisional squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. More... Pakistan players set for dope tests July 14 2007 at 02:10PM Karachi - Pakistan's Cricket Board (PCB) will conduct out-of-competition dope tests on the 30 players they have named in their preliminary squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa in September. A senior board official said on Saturday the dope tests would be conducted soon as part of Pakistan's zero tolerance policy against drugs in sports. Pakistan faced an embarrassing drugs scandal last year when their fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif failed out-of-competition tests before the Champions Trophy in India in October. The two, who tested positive for nandrolone, were initially banned but were later exonerated of all charges and had their bans lifted by an appeals panel. 'We have decided to have dope tests on all 30 of our players'"We have decided to have dope tests on all 30 of our players in the preliminary squad because we just want to avoid any more incidents and also because we remain committed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) strict anti-doping policy in the sport," Zakir Khan, director of cricket operations said. Both Shoaib and Asif have been included in the Twenty20 preliminary squad.

[King]

Expect a couple of late injuries to the Pak bowlers :wink_smile:

[The Outsider]

Perhaps the only good thing to come out of the 20/20 WC is that dopers wont have too much time between ICC events to abuse the system.

[observer1]

How boring. I thought the title referred to IQ testing - who is the biggest dope of them all? Any takers?

[Dhondy]

:haha::haha:

[Donny]

How boring. I thought the title referred to IQ testing - who is the biggest dope of them all? Any takers?

Do you mean other than Steve Harmison ?

[Guest dada_rocks]

mogamboo khus huaa.. too mane dopers, ball-tamperes have got undue respect.. never again..