Kamran Akmal: “Umar Akmal can also be selected, his case and punishment is now out of the way as well. We need to quickly start his rehab rather than delaying it”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal said the selectors should get his brother Umar back in the T20 team.
Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Asif: “I was playing at the highest level for my country and I couldn’t have wished for anything more, but then I threw it away”
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Pakistan speedster Mohammad Asif expressed remorse at the fact that he threw his career away when he was at the top of his game.
Misbah-ul-Haq: “I don’t know why Mohammad Asif or Salman Butt were not selected after completing their bans”
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Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq said he doesn’t know why former captain Salman Butt and pace bowler Mohammad Asif never made international comebacks after serving their bans.
Umar Akmal: “I know how much I have suffered in the last year away from cricket. I want to resurrect my Pakistan career and hopefully I can do that”
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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal said he has suffered a lot and is now focused on resurrecting his international career.
Shoaib Akhtar: “Five years of great loss, and if Kamran Akmal and Sharjeel Khan would have been openers, the opening problem of Pakistan would have been solved”
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Iconic seamer Shoaib Akhtar believes that Pakistan wouldn’t have had the problem they are currently experiencing with openers if Kamran Akmal and Sharjeel Khan had been their top order batsmen.
Moin Khan: “Umar Akmal had an issue which affected our team’s composition deeply”
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Quetta Gladiators head coach Moin Khan said Umar Akmal deeply “affected our team’s composition” after he was banned for failing to report corrupt approaches ahead of last year’s Pakistan Super League (PSL).
Kamran Akmal: “It is a big relief for us to be honest that the ban has reduced from three years to 1.5 years. Still, it is too long and harsh for Umar as he wants to play cricket as soon as possible”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal has said that his brother Umar’s ban is still “too long and harsh” even though it was reduced from three years to 18 months.
Umar Akmal: “I will decide about the remaining sentence and try to get it reduced further”
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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal may look to get his ban decreased further after it was reduced from three years to one-and-a-half.
Umar Akmal has reportedly hired Babar Awan law firm and will challenge his three-year ban
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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has hired a law firm and will challenge the three-year ban imposed on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), according to a report.
Roshan Abeysinghe on Umar Akmal: “I thought he would break a lot of records for Pakistan. I though he was good as any young batsman and could have been Pakistan’s answer to Virat Kohli”
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Sri Lanka commentator Roshan Abeysinghe believes that Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal was so talented that he “could have been Pakistan’s answer to Virat Kohli”.
