ICC leaves more questions than answers….

Here is an interview with James Fitzgerald on various issues related to doping and the WADA ‘Whereabouts’ clause. It was collected by RajaB of BCC!, so all credit goes to him. What is interesting about this interview (seems more like a chat) is that Fitzgerald, part of the Media & Communications wing of the ICC, [...]

Have drugs become Asif’s best friends?

The IPL’s commissioner, Lalit Modi, revealed a few days ago that out of the many random urine samples that were taken for doping tests, one of them came out positive. As I initially read it, I was cool, thinking “ah it’s positive, so it’s good”. After a few seconds, I realised that positive meant bad, [...]

Asif released from detention, Akmal gets the axe

News came from Dubai yesterday that the Dubai public prosecutor, Mohammad Al Nuaimi, who was in charge of Mohammed Asif’s case, had dropped the charges against him due to its insignificance. “It is definite that he committed the crime as he was caught red-handed … however in certain cases and for a faster litigation process [...]