Banned!

Not unexpectedly, Shoaib Akhtar gets a 2 year ban (& Asif, 1 year) by the PCB for using Nandrolone. I think we'll never see Shoaib wearing the Paki colors again. Sad!


"Icarus flew too close to the sun but he had nothing on Shoaib Akhtar. The Rawalpindi Express, the world's fastest bowler, the world's flashiest cricketer. The man who flew too close to the sun too often has finally set fire to his wings and will fly no more. The sight of Shoaib spreading his wings in celebration of a kill will become the stuff of legend, a DVD classic, a spook story that mothers will tell their would-be superstar children: "Lose touch with your humility, your senses, and your mortality, and you will end up like him, the man from Rawalpindi, whose pride knew no bounds and whose stupidity knew no limits."" - Kamran Abbasi on cricinfopakistan.