Would the ICC have been more lenient?

[Gujar]

Does anyone else feel that the PCB may be trying too hard to look good to the rest of the world? I mean obviously none of us can judge until we can see the evidence or lack of it, but just going by the 'punishments' handed out to athletes in other sports, i feel that Shoaib especially has been dealt with harshly. Considering Shoaib has been a 95MPH bowler ever since he started playing, it's not like the drugs really 'enhanced' his performance and i genuinely believe both him and Asif just wanted to get back from injuries quicker. I hope there is still some way inshAllah that we can see Shoaib tearing in wearing the Chand Taara on his chest.

[waqar_ahmad]

no, they would not have been more lenient, in fact i think they would have banned asif for 2 yrs as well

[SUPERSAMI]

From what the tribunal's report stated, they were bound by WADA protocols and had to take an appropriate stance, but then why did we here for two weeks every other PCB official from Nasim Ashraf to Salim Altaf coming out and saying that it was the PCB who would decide the punishment?

[waqar_ahmad]

From what the tribunal's report stated, they were bound by WADA protocols and had to take an appropriate stance, but then why did we here for two weeks every other PCB official from Nasim Ashraf to Salim Altaf coming out and saying that it was the PCB who would decide the punishment?

they were just putting on a show, PCB never decides anything, in the end they always bow to international pressure. anyways lets not go into the details of that cpz there are many threads on it already. the point is that had these players been caugh tby the ICC, the punishment would have been much more severe, specially in asif's case

[infamous9383]

if anything they would have banned both for 2 years.

[Saj]

Personally I think whilst the banning decision has been announced by the PCB, you can bet your bottom dollar that the ICC will have been heavily involved in the decision of the PCB.

At times the PCB tries too hard to please the cricketing governing body, and this is one of them.

[safehands46]

icc are hawks they would have jumped up and life banned them.

[Amir]

The PCB did the right thing. Lets face it, oru boys did the drugs and something we have to live with. You guys want proffesionalism yet you complain when the PCB wants to act in any such manner. Maybe the reason why our cricket is stuck in this never ending cycle because that is the mentality of the countrY? To sweep everything under the carpet?

Look at Warne, alot of us were outraged when he got away with one year. Some of us thought two years and we didn't get that. We should be impartial and I agree with the ban. Both men deserved what they got. As much as I hate the fact that I will never see Shoaib again, I have to agree with PCB on this one. They acted in a proffesional manner and deserve the applause.

[midwicket]

After the Oval fiasco the ICC would jumped on this like a gift horse and made an example of it.