Source: Sky Sports
Shoaib Akhtar has been included in Pakistan’s 15-man squad for this week’s Twenty20 tournament in Canada.
However, star batsman Mohammad Yousuf has been left out by selectors for the tournament, which also features Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and the host nation.
The inclusion of Shoaib came after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) apparently softened its […]

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Source: The Press Association

Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar believes he can extend his controversial international career for another four years.
The 33-year-old has not played for his country in 2008 after spending most of the year embroiled in a legal dispute with the Pakistan Cricket Board. The governing body banned him for five years in April […]

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Source: The Canadian Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistan Cricket Board will allow fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar to play in the English County Championship.
“He (Akhtar) had requested for a No Objection Certificate, which we have issued to him, and we have no problems if he wants to play in county cricket,” PCB chief operating officer Shafqat […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Shoaib Akhtar’s five-year ban was lifted for one month on Sunday, allowing the Pakistan paceman to play in the lucrative Indian Premier League.
Akhtar’s lawyers asked a Pakistan Cricket Board tribunal to temporarily lift the ban, because the IPL was refusing to allow him to take part in its competition while […]

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Source: Cricinfo
Shoaib Akhtar will not be allowed to play in the Indian Premier League despite being cleared by the Pakistan Cricket board, IPL chairman Lalit Modi has said, putting to rest all the speculation over the fast bowler’s participation in the tournament.
Shoaib had been banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board for five years on charges […]

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Source: Guardian
‘Shoaib can play anywhere in the world outside Pakistan’
The Pakistan Cricket Board has rejected Shoaib Akhtar’s appeal against the five-year ban imposed on him for repeated disciplinary breaches, but confirmed that he is free to resume his career overseas. The decision means Shoaib is free to compete in the Indian Premier League while remaining […]

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Source: Herald Tribune
Shoaib Akhtar apologized to the Pakistan cricket board and the general public at a hearing Monday to appeal his five-year ban from domestic and international matches.
The fast bowler filed an appeal with the PCB earlier this month after being found guilty of repeatedly breaching its code of conduct.
The PCB subsequently formed a […]

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Source: The Statesman
KARACHI, April 5: The Senate’s standing committee on sports and culture has summoned Pakistan Cricket Board officials and Shoaib Akhtar, banned for five years, to a hearing to make sure no injustice is done to the cricketer.
The panel’s chairman, Mr Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry, summoned the officials - inclusive of the head of the […]

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Source: CricDb
Shoaib Akhtar’s were contract with Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, but were shattered with the BCCI deciding it would not let him participate till the end of his ban or until his ban was lifted.
The controversial bowler were banned for five-year on Tuesday by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for disciplinary reasons, but […]

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Source: Cricdb
Pakistan Cricket Board sent a legal notice to Shoaib Akhtar for his statements he made during an interview given to a private local channel Express News.Shoaib, in his interview alleged that Nasim Ashraf had pressurized him for and tried to extort a commission from Indian Premier league contract.
In response o the aforesaid false utterances […]

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Source: This is London
Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar says he was offered money to under-perform in games in South Africa and India but rejected them for the sake of his country.
Shoaib has been banned for five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board for disciplinary reasons but is planning an appeal.
He said: ‘This sort of ban has […]

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Source: Telegraph
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar says he will fight the five-year ban imposed yesterday by the Pakistan Cricket Board, which would almost certainly end his international career.
Shoaib received the penalty after he voiced critical remarks about the Board’s decision to downgrade his central contract. He was already serving a two-year probation period after striking […]

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Source: Reuters
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan selectors have left senior fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Muhammad Asif out of the squad for the first two one-day internationals against Bangladesh to be played next month.
Shoaib was not considered as he faced a disciplinary hearing while Asif had yet to recover fully from an elbow injury that had […]

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Source: AFP
LAHORE — Controversial paceman Shoaib Akhtar and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria could face disciplinary action for publicly criticising Pakistan’s cricket authorities, the cricket board said.
The players, who recently lashed out at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), have one week to explain their comments, the PCB said in a statement Monday.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board has issued […]

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Source: CricInfo

Shoaib Akhtar, the Pakistan fast bowler, has been discharged from a private hospital after recovering from a fever and chest infection on Wednesday evening.

Shoaib was admitted to the hospital after complaining of fatigue caused by a fever. He was Pakistan’s best bowler in the first Test in Delhi, taking six wickets in the match, […]

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Source: Reuters

KOLKATA (Reuters) - Pakistan strike bowler Shoaib Akhtar was hospitalised on Tuesday after complaining of fatigue caused by fever, a team official said.

“He was suffering from fever and got very tired after arriving here from New Delhi,” the official told Reuters. “So he has been taken to hospital, probably to be put on a […]

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