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”.
Umar Akmal “is not prepared to show remorse and seek apology”
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has released a detailed insight into batsman Umar Akmal’s corruption case and why he was banned for three years.
A source close to the PCB speaking about Umar Akmal: “He could get a suspended sentence in his three-year ban because this will also test him as an individual to see how he behaves and conducts himself in future”
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Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal ‘could get a suspended sentence in his three-year ban’, according to a source close to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Kamran Akmal: “There are precedents of much shorter bans on similar violations in the past. We are at a loss to understand why Umar Akmal has been treated differently”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal accused the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of treating his brother differently after Umar was given a three-year ban.
