Asif hearing postponed
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif will not be travelling to Mumbai after his Indian Premier League (IPL) drugs hearing was put off due to the terror attacks in Mumbai on Wednesday. A tribunal, comprising former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, the former vice-chancellor of India's Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Dr Ravi Bapat, and lawyer Shirish Gupte, had set November 29 as the date for hearing Asif's appeal in Mumbai, after he had appeared before them on October 11.
Asif, who was due to leave on Thursday morning with his lawyer Shahid Karim for the two-day hearing, said he had been told to remain in Pakistan. "After the Mumbai attacks, I called them [IPL officials] up to find out the status quo of the drugs tribunal hearing and they told me they will convey fresh dates later to me," Asif told PTI. "I don't think the hearing is that important now. Whenever it is held I am confident of being cleared as we have prepared well for it."
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