Pakistan's Shehzad faces ban on failed drug test

Freethinker Pakistan opener Ahmed Shehzad fizzled a medication test directed amid a residential competition in April, the nation's cricket specialists affirmed Tuesday and could confront a boycott of up to four years.

The offense is the most recent in a long reiteration of Pakistani players accused of doping and is an extreme hit to the 26-year-old's stammering vocation.

The Pakistan Cricket Board will issue a formal charge sheet "later today" it said in a discharge, affirming reports as of late that Shehzad had tried positive for a restricted substance.

Shehzad lost his Test put following Pakistan's visit toward the West Independents in mid-2017 and has not played a multi-day worldwide since last October.

He was a piece of Pakistan's Twenty20 squad for the group's two worldwide matches a month ago, overseeing scores of 14 and 24, yet passed up a major opportunity for playing for the tri-arrangement Twenty20 in Zimbabwe which finished Sunday.

Pakistan's cricketers have a background marked by falling flat tests for execution upgrading drugs.

Pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were both discovered utilizing restricted substances in 2006 however later reprieved after a council put aside their medical tests.

Later control changes prompted a two-year boycott for left-arm spinner Raza Hasan, who fizzled a doping test in 2015.

Two other Pakistan spinners, Yasir Shah and Abdur Rehman, have likewise gotten brief bans lately.