{"id":76420,"date":"2018-08-27T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76420"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:47:06","slug":"pcb-likely-to-impose-a-six-month-ban-on-ahmed-shehzad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76420","title":{"rendered":"PCB likely to impose a six-month ban on Ahmed Shehzad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lahore, Aug. 27 (TNS): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to impose a six-month ban on Ahmed Shehzad after his dope test came positive, according to reports on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>PCB will officially hand out the verdict in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Shehzad was provisionally suspended and charged with the violation of anti-doping regulations after he tested positive for a prohibited substance in May.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment can be increased to two years if the offence occurred for the second time, whereas a third offence in this regard can result in a life ban.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old\u2019s in-competition urine sample, which was collected during the domestic Pakistan Cup tournament in May, tested positive and an independent review board confirmed the result in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been given till July 18 2018 to advise whether he wishes to have his B Sample tested and till July 27 to respond to the charges levelled in the Notice of Charge,\u201d the PCB said in a statement on its official website. \u201cThe PCB has also provisionally suspended Ahmed Shehzad pending the outcome of the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shehzad most recently played for Pakistan in the two-match T20I series in Scotland in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lahore, Aug. 27 (TNS): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to impose a six-month ban on Ahmed Shehzad after his dope test came positive, according to reports on Monday. PCB will officially hand out the verdict in a day or two. Earlier, Shehzad was provisionally suspended and charged with the violation of anti-doping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76422,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76420\/revisions\/76422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}