Friday, September 7, 2007

Shoaib : History of Trouble

1996: Takes 25 wickets on the Pakistan A team's tour to England. Pakistan manager reports him for indiscipline and he is dropped from the Pakistan one-day squad going to Toronto for one-day series on the basis of report.

2000: Pakistan board fines him 50,000 rupees ($870.8) for indiscipline on manager's report after tour of Australia.

2003: Dropped from Pakistan team after World Cup and PCB Chairman tells him his career is finished if he does not improve his behaviour and discipline.

2004: Disciplined by match referees in Australia for rude gestures against Australian batsmen in the tests.

2006: Banned for two years after testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone in an internal drugs test carried out by the PCB. A three-man appeals tribunal later clears him of doping offences.

2007: Has a dressing room spat with coach Bob Woolmer during the second test at Port Elizabeth against South Africa caught by television screens. Withdrawn from Pakistan's World Cup squad just hours before the team prepares to fly out to the West Indies.

August 2007: Shoaib is fined 300,000 rupees by the team manager and board for leaving a training camp in Karachi.

September 2007: Shoaib is recalled from the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa after a bust up with team mate Mohammad Asif.

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