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Mohammad Asif questions PCB’s treatment with corrupt players
By Aditya Pratap - Dec 15, 2017 4:48 pm
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Pakistan’s banned fast bowler Mohammad Asif made a big allegation on Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) that they are not equal in doing justice with players involved in corruption.

“What I did seven years back was wrong and I regret it. I have served my full punishment and done all that was required of me under the ICC anti-corruption code. However, not once has anyone in the board or National Cricket Academy bothered to even call me and check about my fitness or form,” said Asif.

Asif is bowling some brilliant spells since after completion of his five-year ban from playing cricket. In Pakistan’s domestic tournament Quaid-e-Azam Trophy’s day-night final in 2016, he took his to the trophy. In the same tournament this year, he took a sensational six-fer for his team against KRL.

He further added “I have performed in two seasons and I am fit. I am ready to take any fitness test or undergo intensive training. But the board appears to have double standards. They can allow Mohammad Aamir back into the Pakistan team without any notable comeback performances and support him but for me or Salman Butt, they do not want to touch us and give us another chance in the national team even though we have done well.”

“You cannot treat players differently. I do not want to go into details but all three of us were equally responsible for what happened seven years back in England.”

Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of spot-fixing during Lord’s Test against England in 2010. All of them got banned from playing cricket but Amir made a comeback in 2015 and took the world by storm with his brilliant bowling display.