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Mohammad Asif, will not be able to enter the UAE for this month’s Twenty20 series against England as the UAE authorities refused to revoke the traveling restrictions into Dubai. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had made a fresh appeal to Dubai authorities requesting them to revoke the ban but UAE has refuse to comply. It should be recalled that Mohd Asif was arrested in Dubai in June 2008 after he was caught in possession of small quantity of opium but with some arm wrestling by the Pakistani Govt it was dismissed.

PCB’s Chief Operating Officer, Wasim Bari, is quoted to have said “We made a request with the UAE authorities but they turned it down as it’s not possible under their laws,”

I’m shocked that Pakistani government had the galls to apply for a pardon after all what he did to disgrace the country in 2008. I say ban him for life, including Shahid Afridi

This article at Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan has been composed by Teeth Maestro.

A 37-year-old man had also been charged with trespass, in which Khalid Latif was grabbed from behind and brought to the ground on the pitch at WACA

Ponting rightly said “If I was the fielding captain tonight, I would have definitely brought all the players in and had a chat to them about how they felt about it, That wasn’t the first spectator that had been out on the ground tonight either. That’s what I would have done if I’d been the captain out there.”

I believe Afridi was too preoccupied with other pressing issues that walking out would have been looked up unkindly by the english speaking audience after all the Aussies can do it in Pakistan but desi’s don’t have the balls to pull off a stunt like that in a jam packed english speaking stadium, unless its our famous Inzaman who chose to walk out of the oval

This article at Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan has been composed by Teeth Maestro.

The PCB is seeking to make a fresh appeal to Dubai authorities requesting them to revoke the traveling restrictionson fast bowler Mohammad Asif who was banned from entering the UAE after being stopped with a small quantity of opium at Dubai airport in June 2008.

He spent 19 days in detention in the UAE and was barred from re-entering Dubai, though no criminal charges were pressed as the government of Pakistan intervened and help wriggle him out of jail. Last year the PCB had tried to negotiate Asif’s reentry into Dubai for the series with New Zealand but ran into a dead end, this year they will apparently try again.

Saldy my opinion back then was to leave this disgraceful cricket rotting in jail. He had gone to represent Pakistan and disgraced the nation in a foreign land, there should be no room for cheat and morons who think they can go skipping around tarnishing the name of Pakistan. Ban him (and Afridi) for life, from ever representing Pakistan ever again

This article at Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan has been composed by Teeth Maestro.

As if the morale of the Pakistani nation could not be taken to another embarrassing lowest point on earth. Shahid Afridi was caught on TV actually biting the cricket ball, aka tampering to help his bowlers win matches. The 3rd umpire, Ranjan Madugalle caught the irregularity and instructed his on field umpires to confiscate the ball.

After the match, Afridi was called into a hearing with the match referee Ranjan Madugalle immediately after the match. Afridi pleaded guilty to the charge admitting to have tampered the ball but added that the practice was common among all teams.

“I shouldn’t have done it. It just happened. I was trying to help my bowlers and win a match, one match, There is no team in the world that doesn’t tamper with the ball. My methods were wrong. I am embarrassed, I shouldn’t have done it. I just wanted to win us a game but this was the wrong way to do it.”