Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Asif's detention in Dubai was result of a misunderstanding and charges of possessing contraband drugs against the pacer has been dropped, according to Pakistan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Ahsan Ullah Khan. Khan claimed a misunderstanding led to Asif's detention in Dubai airport on Sunday on his way home from Mumbai after the pacer participated in the Indian Premier League.
Jailed Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif's lawyers are set to appeal against his conviction in the spot-fixing scandal and if successful, it could lead to his release from prison.
Suspended from the national team, embattled Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif is keeping himself busy training with the Pakistani 'rebels' of the Indian Cricket League as they prepare for the new season that gets underway next month.
Mohammad Asif claimed a career-best 6 for 41 and Mohd Sami 3 for 27 as Australia were shot out for a paltry 127 on Day 1 of the second Test against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Pakistan's pace duo Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer ripped through the New Zealand batting line-up to reduce them to 147 for eight in their second innings of day four of the first Test, in Dunedin, on Friday.
At tea South Africa were 277 for six, a lead of 136. Pakistan were dismissed for 265 in reply to South Africa's first innings of 124.
Banned Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif will be released from prison on May 5 after completing his jail term in the United Kingdom. Asif will decide when he plans to return to Pakistan after being released from prison, said his lawyer Ravi Gill.
Mohammad Amir returned to the hallowed ground of Lord's he defiled six years ago to earn Pakistan one of their most memorable test triumphs over England on Sunday.
The Pakistani pace bowler was recalled to the squad for this month's one-day series against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi.
Disgraced Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif has expressed hope the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will turn over the ban he received following his involvement in the spot fixing scandal that shook the world of cricket.
The Pakistan pace bowler claimed his first 10-wicket haul as Sri Lanka collapsed to 73 for 8 in their second innings on day 2 of the second Test.
Shoaib Akhtar's personal doctor has indicated he too plans to appeal.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has joined Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir in filing an appeal against his ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland.
The Pakistan team management is seriously considering playing dope-tainted pacer Mohammad Asif in the crucial Champions Trophy tie against India on Saturday in Centurion, South Africa.
Pakistan captain Younis Khan compared Mohammad Asif's bowling with Australian seamer Glenn McGrath.
The players have been asked to submit in writing their reports at the Pakistan Cricket Board-appointed drug tribunal's next meeting.
Beleaguered Pakistan speedster Mohammad Asif's misery continue to grow. His 'B' sample has tested positive for a banned substance. It had approximately 5.4 milligrams of nandrolone traces in his urine sample. Asif's lawyer Shahid Karim confirmed on Tuesday that the pacer did test positive for a second time and added that he will appeal against the verdict.
The drugs inquiry tribunal looking into Pakistan paceman Mohammad Asif's positive dope tests will hold its next hearing in London on January 24. Asif, who has played 11 Tests, failed a dope test during the Indian Premier League in June and his 'B' sample in August was also positive.
The lawyer for suspended Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has asked for his appeal against a positive doping test to be set for the earliest possible date.
Mohammad Asif took four wickets as England slumped from 54 for 1 to 173 all out after being put in by Pakistan in he fourth Test.
The Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday paved the way for Mohammad Asif's return to the national team for the Champions Trophy later this year after fining the controversial fast bowler Rs 1 million for his involvement in a drug case in Dubai.
Pakistan fast bowler Muhammad Asif has filed an appeal against his five-year ban by the ICC with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland.
The Indian Premier League on Monday rejected the Pakistan Cricket Board's request to advance the commencement date of the one-year ban on pacer Mohammad Asif, who returned a positive dope test, from September 23 to July 15, 2008.
Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday made it clear that it would not support embattled paceman Mohammad Asif, who has again been caught in a doping scandal and faces a possible two-year ban.
Debutant Pakistan off-spinner Bilal Asif ripped through the Australian middle-order with six wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 202 on the third day of the first Test, in Dubai, on Tuesday.
Reader Karen Osborn sent us pictures of Akhtar and Asif from South Africa.
Banned Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, on Tuesday, appeared at a local court in London, as their trial on charges relating to spot-fixing during a Test match against England last year began more than a year after the scandal rocked world cricket.
Eight people, including a child, were charred to death in their SUV after it was hit by an oncoming truck and caught fire in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif returned home on Friday after spending 19 days in detention in Dubai over a drug-related incident. Asif arrived in Karachi from Dubai and without coming out of the terminal caught a connecting flight to Lahore where the Pakistan Cricket Board headquarters are located.
They turned on each other during the spot-fixing trial and now convicted Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have been forced to share a cell at the Wandsworth prison where they are serving their term.
Pakistan's Mohammad Asif took five wickets to lessen the impact of Ashwell Prince's century for South Africa on the third day of the first Test on Saturday.
Former Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif lost their appeals against bans for spot-fixing in the Lord's Test against England in 2010.
The panel will recommend if they are to be penalised for testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif, one of the three cricketers at the centre of the spot-fixing scandal, is mulling over making a claim for political asylum in Britain to avoid going back to his country, where fans are said to have acutely reacted to the allegations.
Desperate to prove his innocence in the Indian Premier League doping scam, embattled Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif and his lawyer have left for Geneva, Switzerland on Friday night, where his "B" sample test will be conducted on Monday. Asif, who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug during the IPL, would come to know whether he faces more disciplinary action or not only after the "B" sample test.
Pakistan's top pacer Mohammad Asif will miss the five-match ODI series in India due to a chronic elbow problem.
The duo have not been included in Pakistan's squad for the second ODI against the West Indies, despite being cleared of doping offences.
Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif called Australian all-rounder Shane Watson a 'bloody white' during the team's tour Down Under and got away with it, according to the then team manager Abdul Raquib.
The PCB's anti-doping commission observed that Mohammad Asif's command of English is limited and could not possibly have understood the WADA regulations.
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