Official Thread For Champions Trophy, Come and share my dear cricketing friends Options

[tracknest]

I did not initiate this discussion earlier as all meaningless games were being played till the game where we beat the English side.

It seems Australia is the favorite and the team to beat followed by India and Newzeland in my opinion.

Shame to see Shoaib and the talented Asif get into this mess. I do not condone doping but no doping cant create a talent like Asif. I hope the boy gets a clear if he is innocent.

Come on Anil ji and Mandrake ji and co...lets share

[princeali]

I don't see why both Shoaib and Asif would take Nadrolone, they don't need it. Here is what Wikepedia says on detecting the substance:

Urine analysis as a method of detecting nandrolone abuse has recently become somewhat controversial, following studies by the University of Aberdeen showing that the metabolite product can also show up in urine in quantities above the upper limit from a combination of high-protein diets utilising the legal nutritional supplement creatine and hard cardiovascular exercise.

It could be that both took in the product without knowing, it could have showed up in their diets. They were both returning from injury and maybe took some medicines that contained the substance.

What the PCB should have done is investigate further without coming straight out into public with the story, they made a blunder.