Did anyone read the full text of the ban imposed by PCB on The Rawalpindi Express? Its a long article and if at all you missed the most important piece - the id of Shoaib Akhtar's urine sample was 189638. The reasons for a 2 year ban are interesting "He [Shoaib] drinks alcohol, has an active sex life and he's been part of anti-doping awareness programmes." And, why only 1 year for Mohammad Asif for the same offence? "We decided to ban him for a year because his English is not that good, he comes from a remote village where he would not have been educated on the dangers of drugs in sport and so he doesn't understand". The message is not even subtle, its crystal clear! Shoaib gets 2 years because the board is jealous he has an active sex life and Asif gets 1 year so that he can learn English.
In the full text, did you look at the number of dietary supplements Shoaib takes
1. BLAZE XTREME (a fat burning supplement): Ramesh Powar could use quite a few of these
2. SIZE ON (cell volumizer): Mohamamed Kaif should definitely consider these, atleast in an injection form around his cheek bones
3. T-Bomb II (Its like Testosterone on Testosterone): Parthiv Patel definitely needs this !!
4. NITRON5 (boosts strength, muscle pumps and blood flow): Javagal Srinath used to exhaust all the curd rice energy from dinner in the very first over. He could have definitely used these
and not to mention the "off the cuff" supplements and herbal medicines he was taking based on general wisdom so wide spread in Rawalpindi. General wisdom, lol! (Or is it General as in General Pervez Musharaff?)
Is the 2 year ban fair? If its 1 day (1 hour) for every time he chucked the ball, its highly unfair (totally fair). If its for performance enhancing drugs, then I am sure you cannot counter Malaysia's pee testing ex-pee-rtise! Just to play devil's advocate, I would like to extend the Australian Muslim cleric's general wisdom: If you find performance enhancing drugs in a urine sample, is it the urine's fault or the person who provided the sample? I think its the urine's fault. Personally, I would get all charged up and strange chemical reactions happen inside my body when I take long flights, say for example, from Pakistan to Malaysia. So, I wouldn't necessarily blame the urine either. If you have to ban anything/anyone at all, ban Shoaib's samples please.
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His chucking was all along admitted on the grounds of some abnormal shape of his bowling arm. If you pump in all these supplements on a daily basis, what else do you expect! Circle of life...
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