With 3 weeks to go for boards to put up their final squads of 15 for the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal may have used up his ultimate threat at earning selection for this summer season’s showpiece occasion. On Sunday, Akmal was fined 20 percent of his fit fee and given a reprimand after breaking crew curfew ahead of the 5th ODI between Pakistan and Australia in Dubai. The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed the sanction on Umar, whose ultimately changed into recalled to Pakistan’s squad for the first time because he was sent domestic from the 2017 Champions Trophy for failing to pass a health check. (READ: PCB unperturbed after Australia inflict a series whitewash on Pakistan)
This is the state-of-the-art sequence of transgressions for which the PCB has taken action against Akmal throughout the last decade, been inside and outside the team. Akmal, 28, performed all five ODIs in opposition to Australia, sealed and made 48, sixteen, 36, 7, and forty-three. But now, with this brand new incident, he can be on very thin ice. In 2o10, 12 months into his first season of worldwide cricket, Akmal changed into purported to have feigned harm in an attempt and skip a Test in protest of his brother Kamran’s axing. As a result, the PCB fined him and placed him on probation for 6 months.
In 2014, Akmal was jailed for beating a visitor’s warden after he was pulled over for rash driving.
Following the 2015 World Cup, Akmal was dropped from Pakistan’s ODI squad with then head instruct Waqar Younis, citing a lack of field and an on the spot of the batsman failing to obey orders from the captain and coach.
In November 2015, Akmal was excluded from Pakistan’s T20 squad to play England on disciplinary grounds following an alleged incident related to the mistreatment of women while away playing a satisfactory fit. During his departmental facet’s match in Hyderabad, Akmal attended a private party with buddies, which changed into raided with the aid of the local police. He changed into eventually issued a show-cause note requiring him to seem earlier than the selectors and was cleared through a PCB inquiry by a police record that claimed Akmal was no longer recognizable at the birthday celebration. In May 2017, Umar and speedy bowler Junaid Khan had been fined by way of the PCB after clashing while the latter overlooked a Pakistan Cup fit due to health-related troubles.
