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Akhtar ban cut to 18 months

AFP, Lahore
An appeal tribunal Saturday reduced Pakistan fast bowler Shoalb Akhtar's five-year ban to 18 months and imposed a sevenmillion-rupee (105,000 dollar) fine.
"We have in consensus decided that the ban on Akhtar is reduced to one-and-a-holf years and Impose a fine of seven million rupees," the three-member tribunal chief Justice Aftab Farrukh told reporters.
He sold one member of the tribunal suggested scrapping (he ban but Increasing die financial penalty to 20 million rupees.
The 32-year-old paceman was banned for five years on a scries of discipline charges on April 1 this
year. The ban was last month suspended for 30 days to allow the fiery paccman to play in a domestic event in India.
The judge said Akhtar could appeal against the decision.
"It is up to him to appeal, we have given a decision after thoroughly examining the case and to the best ofour conscience, " he said.
One of the three members of the tribunal, former Test cricketer Haseeb Ahsan, could not attend the meeting due to illness, but gave his consent on telephone.
The third member, Naveed Choudhry, said he wanted Akhtar to play after paying a hefty fine.
"Since Akhtar plays for Pakistan, I wanted him to play but pay a hefty fine of twenty million, but the other two members thought otherwise," said Choudhry.
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Akhtar publicly criticised the PCB in January after falling to make a short-list of 15 players who were offered a central contract.
He was already on two years' probation for hitting teammate Mohammad Asif with a bat days before the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa last September.
Last month the PCB softened Its stance over the player last month following pressure from the government, and the board's chairman Nasim Ashraf withdrew a defamation suit against him.
Akhtar had accused Ashraf of demanding a commission from his contract for the Indian event and said Ids refusal led to the five year ban.
Ashraf sued Akhtar for 200 million rupees in compensation.
but dropped the suit after the player made a public apology.
Akhtar, who has played 46 Tests and 138 one-day internationals since 1997, is yet to play for Pakistan this year.
The temperamental fast bowler was also involved in a doping scandal in 2006. He and fellow paceman Asif tested positive for nandrolone and were banned for two and one year respectively in October 2006.
The bans were lifted on appeals.