'Akhtar is addicted to strong pain-killers and can't live without them'.Byline: ANI Karachi, May 24 (ANI): Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar's prolonged fitness problems maybe primarily due to his addiction to strong pain killers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the sources privy to the Pakistan cricket camp, Akhtar is so addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to pain-killing injections that it seems he can not live without it. "He (Akhtar) is addicted to strong pain-killers and it seems he can't live without them," The News quoted the source, as saying. He also revealed that Akhtar virtually begged for a particular pain killer during the recent one-day series against Australia in the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. . "Akhtar was so desperate for a particular pain-killing injection during the tour of UAE that he almost begged a local doctor for it. The doctor, however, told him that he would risk being thrown out of UAE is he administered that injection," he said. Akhtar looked out of sorts during the whole series and failed to bowl his quota of ten overs in any of the five games of the series. It may be noted that the PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. had initially selected Akhtar for the World Twenty20 championship, but later axed him from the 15 man squad after the pacer developed a 'mysterious' skin disease. Akhtar also missed the five-day conditioning camp in Bhurban, and stayed out of the three practice games played Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested. in Lahore from May 20-22. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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