What do you think about Shoaib Akhtar's lifetime ban?

Question

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGQZ9AUG5tBysSOu7wyYzPbKpEXw

do you think Akhtar deserves it or some people have settled their scores with him. Another reason as stated by Akhtar is that he was asked a part of his income from IPL from official of PCB , which he didn't agree and finally suffered the wrath of PCB official!!

why o why!!

lifetime ban!!

something fishy with PCB!!

why o why, Pakistan board is corrupt!!

why o sir ji why!!

any crime by Akhtar doesn't call for a lifetime ban, thats for sure!!

Answer 1

A ban is probably not warranted here.  A suspension with fine should have been sufficient.  Shoaib is a still a popular bowler with some of his deliveries clocking 90mph.  Very few bowlers can achieve this.

I feel the cricket boards in general are a bit uptight on assessing players.  They should go easy on them and look at  increasing the threshold for banning them.  Perhaps they need to take a lesson from the NBA and NHL (like what the Chicago Bulls did to Dennis Rodman or the Buffalo Sabres did to Matthew Barnaby or Chris Pronger to Anaheim Ducks).

We may have to slowly come out of the mindset that cricket is a gentleman's sport and take it more as a professional game.

Answer 2

I believe Akthar more than the corrupt administrators. Its good that he made everything public.

Answer 3

taken drugsss

Answer 4

I strongly feel that it is too harsh a punishment.

Answer 5

i think it is good i hate him and hope he never plays again

Answer 6

Firstly, it is not a lifetime ban but a five-year ban, although given he is 32 it is effectively a life sentence at that.

I thought Danish Kaneria was extremely unfairly treated by being given a C grade contract. Abdul Razzaq, too, had reasons to be aggrieved. Basically, the PCB's handling of senior players leave much to be desired, and it cannot be said that they are blameless.

On the other hand, injury, poor form and a bust-up with Mohammed Asif already ruined Shoaib's reputation. The last thing he should have done was to go and criticise the PCB for giving him only a retainer contract, because he was lucky to get that and could have used it to make a comeback eventually. That said, the PCB was extremely heavy-handed in its course of action, and the whole issue is not black and white at all.

The plot thickens, of course, with revelations of the demands for a share of his salary, and with the ACSU interrogating him over match-fixing links. One should not, therefore, jump to conclusions about who is right and wrong in this whole fracas. Shoaib Akhtar may well the right to feel hard done by, given his services to Pakistan cricket, but he is not guiltless either and only time will tell what the real situation is.