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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
CAS can't rule on Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif's ban
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has stated that it has no power to reverse a decision to overturn Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif's suspensions for doping.
Pakistan cricketers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were banned for two years and a year respectively after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone, however, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) overturned the bans after the two players claimed they had not knowingly used the substance.
The Lausanne-based court cannot get involved because the PCB does not recognise that it has any authority to do so.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) had hoped to have the bans enforced after appealing to CAS to interject, and Wada chairman Dick Pound said that the ICC - the game's governing body - was "a signatory to the anti-doping code." Dick Pound added that Pakistan, as a full member of the ICC, was bound by its rules.
However the CAS said in a statement: "The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed the appeal filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency against the Pakistan Cricket Board Anti-Doping Appeals Committee dated 5 December 2006.
"The CAS has considered that it has no jurisdiction to decide the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Pakistan Cricket Board, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif."
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