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P17 Layout 1 MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015 SPORTS Pakistan’s Yasir Shah suspended for doping: ICC DUBAI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah was yester- est doping issue came after Sri Lankan wicketkeeper be pulled out of that year’s Champions Trophy in India. day provisionally suspended for failing a dope test by batsman Kusal Prera tested positive for a banned sub- But both were cleared on the basis that tests were the International Cricket Council (ICC). stance earlier this month. conducted internally and not by the ICC. “Shah has been charged with an anti-doping rule Prera faces a lengthy ban from international cricket Pakistan Cricket Board, which conducts regular edu- violation on a sample he provided in an in-competition with his B sample understood to have also tested posi- cation pogrammes for players on anti-doping and cor- test,” an ICC statement announced. “The test, conduct- tive. Perera had to be withdrawn from Sri Lanka’s tour ruption, said it will study the case in the next two days. ed on 13 November 2015, was found to contain the to New Zealand after the news came. His test was con- Under the rules Shah has seven days to demand a presence of chlortalidone, a Prohibited Substance ducted in October. test on his “B” sample and another seven days to plead which appears in Section 5 of the World Anti-Doping Pakistan has a history of doping related offences as guilty. The ICC tribunal on anti-doping will determine Agency list (in the category of Specified Substances).” in 2006 pace duo of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad the extent of his ban which could be from two to four “In accordance with the ICC Anti-Doping Code, Asif tested positive for banned substances and had to years. —- AFP pending the outcome of the disciplinary process, Yasir has been provisionally suspended,” said the ICC. The 29-year-old has emerged as a match-winner for Pakistan since ace spinner Saeed Ajmal’s action was Pakistan cricketers reported and subsequently lost his wicket-taking abili- ty with a remodelled action. Shah took 12 wickets in Pakistan’s 2-0 win against banned for doping Australia last year before playing a key role in this year’s 2-1 Test series win in Sri Lanka with 24 wickets. DUBAI: Pakistan cricketers banned or suspended for and Wales Cricket Board under its anti-doping rules A month before he was tested (October 12) Shah doping after the International Cricket Council sus- after testing positive for the recreational drug had fallen down while bowling in the nets in his follow pended leg-spinner Yasir Shah yesterday: cannabis during his stint with Somerset county. through and had to miss the first Test against England November 1, 2006: Fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar May 07 - 2014: Kashif Siddiq was banned for two in Abu Dhabi with a back problem. and Mohammad Asif were banned for two years and years for violating anti-doping rules. He returned for the second and third Tests, taking one year respectively after both were found guilty of May 25 - 2015: Pakistan’s spinner Raza Hasan 15 wickets to help Pakistan beat England 2-0 and was using the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Both banned for two years after failing a dope test in tested during the one-day series. Shah has so far taken were absolved by a tribunal because the tests were national competition. 76 wickets in 12 Tests and became the fastest to com- conducted out of competition. Dec 27, 2015: The International Cricket Council plete 50 wickets in nine Tests-a record for Pakistan. October 2, 2012: Left-arm spinner Abdul provisionally suspended leg-spinner Yasir Shah on He has also played 15 one-day internationals and Yasir Shah Rehman was banned for 12 weeks by the England violating anti-doping rules. — AFP two Twenty20s after making his debut in 2011. The lat- Broad strikes put England on top DURBAN: Stuart Broad bowled two fiery 85 off 236 balls. Fresh from making a spells and took three wickets to give hard-hit 32 not out in a last wicket stand England a slight advantage at the end of of 36 with Steven Finn, Broad struck with the second day of the first Test against the second ball of the South African South Africa at Kingsmead yesterday. innings when Van Zyl failed to play a shot South Africa were 137 for four at the against a ball which cut back and hit the close, still 166 runs behind England’s first top of his off stump. innings total of 303. Amla survived two appeals for caught Broad dismissed opener Stiaan van behind off Broad and was dropped by Zyl as well as South Africa’s two key bats- wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow off Chris men, captain Hashim Amla and AB de Woakes before edging a routine catch to Villiers, to finish the day with three for 16 Bairstow after making seven. from ten overs. South Africa would have been in Opening batsman Dean Elgar with- worse trouble if AB de Villiers, on 11, had stood the Broad barrage and was not survived an umpires’ review after unbeaten on 67, although he could have edging Steven Finn low to Ben Stokes at been out for 58 if England had sought a gully. Stokes was not certain whether the review after an appeal for leg before ball had carried, an opinion shared by wicket by Ben Stokes had been turned television umpire Bruce Oxenford after down. Off-spinner Moeen Ali took the viewing several replays. De Villiers went fourth wicket when he bowled Faf du on to make an accomplished 49 before Plessis. Fast bowlers Morne Morkel and Broad returned to the attack and had Dale Steyn finished with four wickets him caught behind, pushing at a ball each as England lost six English wickets which left him off the pitch to provide a in an extended morning’s play. Morkel second catch for Bairstow. took all of his wickets on Sunday, includ- The left-handed Elgar, who reached ing a burst of three wickets for no runs 1000 runs in his 22nd Test when he off six balls, and finished with four for 76, had 35, reached a 93-ball half-century while Steyn took four for 70. with a straight six off Ali. He had faced Morkel’s victims included top scorer 155 balls by the close, hitting five fours Nick Compton, who made a painstaking and a six. — AFP SCOREBOARD DURBAN, South Africa: Scores at close on the second day of the first Test between South Africa and England at Kingsmead yesterday: England, first innings 16-2-63-1, Van Zyl 2-1-2-0, Elgar 7-2-22-0 (overnight 179-4) A. Cook c Elgar b Steyn 0 South Africa, first innings A. Hales c De Villiers b Steyn 10 S. van Zyl b Broad 0 N. Compton c De Villiers b Morkel 85 D. Elgar not out 67 MELBOURNE: West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels (L) is trapped for a leg before wicket (LBW) by Australian paceman James Pattinson for a J. Root lbw b Piedt 24 H. Amla c Bairstow b Broad 7 duck on the second day of the second cricket Test in Melbourne yesterday. — AFP J. Taylor c De Villiers b Steyn 70 A. de Villiers c Bairstow b Broad 49 B. Stokes c Duminy b Morkel 21 F. du Plessis b Ali 2 J. Bairstow c Elgar b Abbott 41 T. Bavuma not out 10 M. Ali c De Villiers b Morkel 0 Extras (lb1, w1) 2 West Indies batsmen crumble C. Woakes lbw b Morkel 0 Total (4 wkts, 52 overs) 137 S. Broad not out 32 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Van Zyl), 2-14 (Amla), 3- S. Finn lbw b Steyn 12 100 (De Villiers), 4-113 (Du Plessis) against rampant Australia Extras (b1, lb3, nb3, w1) 8 Bowling: Broad 10-5-16-3, Woakes 11-1-22- Total (101.1 overs) 303 0, Ali 13-0-45-1, Finn 10-1-34-0, Stokes 7-1- Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Cook), 2-12 (Hales), 3-49 19-0 (1w), Root 1-1-0-0 MELBOURNE: James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon (Root), 4-174 (Taylor), 5-196 (Stokes), 6-247 To bat: J. Duminy, D. Steyn, D. Piedt, K. and Peter Siddle claimed two wickets each SCOREBOARD (Compton), 7-253 (Ali), 8-253 (Woakes), 9- Abbott, M. Morkel yesterday as the West Indies staggered to 91-6 267 (Bairstow) Match situation: South Africa trail by 166 at stumps on the second day of the second Bowling: Steyn 25.1-5-70-4, Abbott 24-4-66- runs with six wickets remaining in the first test in reply to Australia’s daunting first- MELBOURNE: Scores at the close on the second day of the second Test between Australia and the West Indies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday: 1 (1nb), Morkel 26-5-76-4 (2nb, 1w), Piedt innings. innings total of 551-3 declared. The West Indies seem destined to follow- Australia 1st innings (345-3 overnight) West Indies 1st innings on, trailing Australia by 460 runs. Darren Bravo J. Burns stp Ramdin b K. Brathwaite 128 K. Brathwaite c Burns b Lyon 17 was 13 not out at stumps and Carlos D. Warner c Samuels b Taylor 23 R. Chandrika lbw b Pattinson 25 Brathwaite on 3. Openers Kraigg Brathwaite U. Khawaja c Ramdin b Taylor 144 D. Bravo not out 13 M. Samuels lbw b Pattinson 0 S. 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