CHRONOLOGY - Shoaib Akhtar's disciplinary violations |
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Tuesday April 1, 06:56 PM
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April 1 (Reuters) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for five years for repeated disciplinary violations.
Below is a chronology of disciplinary action taken against him.
Sept. 1997: Dropped from Pakistan one-day squad for a series in Toronto on the basis of tour manager's report of an earlier visit to England by the A team
Dec. 1999: Banned for illegal bowling action
Feb. 2000: Banned for a test and fined 50,000 rupees ($1,800) after breaching players' code of conduct on tour of Australia
Jan. 2001: Banned for illegal bowling action for a second time
Nov. 2002: Fined 50 percent of match fee, banned for one one-day international for throwing a bottle into crowd during a test in Zimbabwe
Dec. 2002: Suspended one-test ban for ball tampering
May 2003: Banned for two ODIs and fined 75 percent of match fee for ball tampering during a tri-series match in Sri Lanka
Oct. 2003: Banned for one test and two ODIs for using obscene and offensive language towards South African Paul Adams in Lahore test
Dec. 2004: Fined 40 percent of match fee for taunting batsman during test in Australia
Jan. 2005: Fined 25 percent of match fee for excessive appealing in ODI in Australia
Oct. 2006: Banned for two years for testing positive for nandrolone. Ban lifted on appeal two months later
Aug. 2007: Fined $5,000 for leaving training camp without permission. Fine suspended on appeal.
Oct. 2007: Banned for 13 international matches and fined 3.4 million rupees ($120,300) for four breaches of discipline including striking team mate Mohammad Asif with a bat before Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. Also put on two-year probation.
April 2008: Banned for five years by PCB for violating code of conduct while under probation period.
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