The Hindu : Richie Benaud to hear Akhtar's appeal

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003

Sport

Sport - Cricket

Richie Benaud to hear Akhtar's appeal

London Oct. 21 Former Australia captain Richie Benaud will hear Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar's appeal against his one Test match and two one-day International ban for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct.

Benaud, now an esteemed broadcaster, is Cricket Australia's nominated member of the ICC's Code of Conduct Commission and has been appointed as Appeals Commissioner for Shoaib's case by ICC's Legal Counsel, Urvasi Naidoo, ICC said in a press release here.

Shoaib was banned for using foul language against South African tail-ender Paul Adams during the first day of the first Test in Lahore last Friday.

If the ban is upheld 27-year-old Akhtar will miss the second Test against South Africa at Faisalabad starting from October 24 and the first two games of a five-match home one-day series against New Zealand next month. Inviting trouble is nothing new for the `Rawalpindi Express' who has so far breached the Code of Conduct on numerous occasions.

Shoaib earlier breached the code by making an obscene gesture to the crowd during the fifth one-day international in Zimbabwe in December 2002 and was banned for one limited overs international and fined 50 per cent of his match fee.

He was also banned for two One-Day Internationals and fined 75 per cent of his match fee in May this year for ball tampering in a tri-series tournament in Sri Lanka.— PTI

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport