Any player who tests positive deseve to get some sort of punishment and Asif is no exception. What me and some of the other posters feel is that Asif was unfortunate to get caught because he was never given a proper education on what he should take and what he should not and his village upbringing and lack of acadamic education did not help matters.Dravid said:
I think every other sport is tested pretty hard.TT Boy said:
In his last interview on Geo , he mentioned that he does not have a car and offcourse he took drugs and followed a player or two but the thing is "we are still in doubt that he can read the ingridients on the back of the medicine box properly " . And offcourse he took some clothings from the liberty market too to wear on . And btw for the sake of argument what designer clothings are you talking about ?Sanz said:
The doctors have exactly said too late what I told u immeditely after the bans.Xuhaib said:
That makes no sense. If they wanted to allow cheats, they would follow India's lead and not drug test their players at all. I expect the PCB code to be amended very quickly.
From what I remember they only did drugs tests on the insistence of the late Bob Woolmer. Those tests turned out to be a lot of use obviously, not to mention the evasion of later drugs tests for Shoaib and Asif (in the World Cup and separate testing).
Woolmer was in favor of drug testing, but he had no strong pull over the board to force them to adopt that policy. The critics seem to forget that the PCB voluntarily adopted this policy. Sure they didn't handle the whole issue properly, but they should be given credit for trying. All Pakistani players are now aware that drug testing will be conducted and if they dope, they're going to test positive. So the PCB has laid a good groundwork for the future.
