{"id":39023,"date":"2021-02-26T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39023"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:21:43","slug":"will-umar-akmal-be-able-to-play-next-cricket-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39023","title":{"rendered":"Will Umar Akmal be able to play next cricket season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Umar-Akmal.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KARACHI: National Cricketer, Umar Akmal has got his ban reduced to 12 months by\u00a0the\u00a0Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the final decision, Akmal&#8217;s 18-months ban has been reduced to 12 months. Akmal was suspended from all forms of the game after PCB found him involved in suspicious activities before PSL 5.<\/p>\n<p>In an investigation, PCB found him guilty and put a three-year ban on him. The cricketer appealed against PCB&#8217;s decision. Ex-Supreme Court judge Mr. Justice (retd) Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, in his capacity as an independent adjudicator, heard the appeal and had reduced Akmal\u2019s ban to 1.5 years from 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Akmal wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the decision and appealed in CAS further. In reply, PCB also consulted with CAS for an increase in Akmal&#8217;s ban.<\/p>\n<p>Following the latest decision, Akmal has already served suspension for 12 months and eligible for the rehabilitation process after which he will be able to play cricket.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read:\u00a0Arbitration court reserves decision on Umar Akmal\u2019s ban appeal<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KARACHI: National Cricketer, Umar Akmal has got his ban reduced to 12 months by\u00a0the\u00a0Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). According to the final decision, Akmal&#8217;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39023\" title=\"Will Umar Akmal be able to play next cricket season?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39025,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39023\/revisions\/39025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}