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PCB to introduce drug testing in T20 tournament

Published: 01 Dec 2012 - 12:52 am | Last Updated: 05 Feb 2022 - 09:46 am

KARACHI: Pakistan will introduce drug testing in its domestic Twenty20 tournament that begins today in accordance with rules from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), its cricket board has announced.

Pakistan has been embarrassed internationally by doping offences with frontline paceman Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif failing tests in 2006.

Akhtar was banned for two years and Asif for one, but the bans were controversially overturned on appeal.

The incidents prompted the International Cricket Council to introduce doping codes,

“The PCB is introducing in-competition dope testing during the Twenty20 tournament in order to strive for drug free sports and to protect the basic framework for the athletes,” the PCB said in a statement.

“Cricketers from all the regional teams participating in the Twenty20 championship will randomly be picked for dope testing.

“These tests will be conducted by WADA accredited independent doping control officers throughout the competition,” the PCB said.

AFP