Pakistani Cricketer has dont it again.

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PAKISTAN'S CRICKET team, barely recovered from the Ovalgate crisis, plunged into another controversy on Monday, on the eve of its opening Champions Trophy encounter against Sri Lanka. In a dry official statement, Pakistan manager Talat Ali told the media that two frontline pace bowlers, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, had failed a drug test conducted by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in September and would be sent home. The two tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. The PCB, which tested 19 players before the Champions Trophy at the behest of coach Bob Woolmer, has asked a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab in Kuala Lumpur to test the two players' 'B' (second) samples too. The result is expected within 24 hours. But few hold out any hope of the second samples being negative. Sources said in Akhtar's case, the B sample was also positive. Akhtar and Asif could be banned for two years if their B samples are also positive. For Akhtar, 31, that could well mean the end of his international career. Sources close to the Pakistani team management said it got the news of the positive dope tests sometime between Sunday evening and midnight. The information was leaked to a Pakistani newspaper, which meant the country woke up to the news on Monday. WHAT’S IN STORE Plan B Akhtar and Asif could be banned for two years if their B samples are also positive. Sources say Akhtar’s has tested positive ICC’s stand Cricket’s governing body says it is for Pakistan to take necessary action During Champions Trophy Six matches will be randomly chosen for drug testing. Two players from each side will be tested.