Mohammad Asif tests positive for illegal drug

[Sureshot]

Let's not throw the book at him yet until the B sample comes back positive.

I'm unsure why they do this whole A and B sample thing. It's not going to be wrong. Either the drug is there or it isn't.

 

[usy]

LOL! Sorry Pakistani members for any offence I may cause, but I had a very strong hunch it was a Pakistani fast bowler.

I don't feel offence, I have the sightedness of being ashamed at my countries Cricket Board.

 

[Leicester Fox]

LOL

it was Leicestershire.

 

[SaiSrini]

Horrible. How is this guy allowed to be free playing in cricket?

BAN HIM IMMEDIATELY, AND FOR LIFE!!! He is talented, but if he uses these things to enhance his talent, its unfair to others. He has to be removed from the scene!

 

[manee]

I'm unsure why they do this whole A and B sample thing. It's not going to be wrong. Either the drug is there or it isn't.

If it is one sample, which is presumably urine, it is one instance of a trace amount. Trace amounts of a substance in one sample could theoretically come from use of a totally legal substance ages ago.

 

[angryangy]

I'm unsure why they do this whole A and B sample thing. It's not going to be wrong. Either the drug is there or it isn't.

They don't just put the urine under a microscope and see little pills everywhere. It's very complicated and many drugs are still not reliably tested. A lot of drugs are simply synthetic human hormones, such as Human Growth Hormone or Erythropoietin, which cyclists use to increase red blood cell count. The most familiar doping agent, anabolic steroids are simply derivatives of the male sex hormone, testosterone. Although the term steroid is generally associated with drugs that cause muscle growth, it simply means a fat soluble organic compound. Corticosteroids, for example, are a common medicine derived from the hormones of the adrenal gland (such as adrenaline, which every sportsman is using naturally). It is the term anabolic that produces this effect, meaning it initiates the body's process of building proteins and cell components from energy and raw materials.

The anabolic steroid Shoaib Akhtar tested positive to in 2006, nandrolone, is actually produced naturally in the human body, albeit in miniscule amounts. It is also not directly tracable in urine. Testing for nandrolone is based on finding the molecules that are produced as the body uses the nandrolone. In the case of this and many drugs, the test is positive merely if a natural chemical is present in abnormal quantity. Likewise, in certain circumstances it can be argued that that abnormality has been created through acceptable circumstances.

The process of the A and B sample is simply good science. In medicine and in science in general, testing can produce unexpected results. Scientists usually have the benefit of a control sample, but the human body itself can vary as much as a kilogram in weight over the course of a day; even your own body is different to your body. Statistics made from samples smaller than 100 are generally considered unreliable and rather horrifyingly, as many as 1 in 100 HIV tests turn a false positive.

The B sample does usually turn the same result, but not always. As the results of prosecution for a positive drugs test are often quite dire for a player's career, it is only sensible that a certain error margin is taken into account.

 

[manee]

They don't just put the urine under a microscope and see little pills everywhere. It's very complicated and many drugs are still not reliably tested. A lot of drugs are simply synthetic human hormones, such as Human Growth Hormone or Erythropoietin, which cyclists use to increase red blood cell count. The most familiar doping agent, anabolic steroids are simply derivatives of the male sex hormone, testosterone. Although the term steroid is generally associated with drugs that cause muscle growth, it simply means a fat soluble organic compound. Corticosteroids, for example, are a common medicine derived from the hormones of the adrenal gland (such as adrenaline, which every sportsman is using naturally). It is the term anabolic that produces this effect, meaning it initiates the body's process of building proteins and cell components from energy and raw materials.

The anabolic steroid Shoaib Akhtar tested positive to in 2006, nandrolone, is actually produced naturally in the human body, albeit in miniscule amounts. It is also not directly tracable in urine. Testing for nandrolone is based on finding the molecules that are produced as the body uses the nandrolone. In the case of this and many drugs, the test is positive merely if a natural chemical is present in abnormal quantity. Likewise, in certain circumstances it can be argued that that abnormality has been created through acceptable circumstances.

The process of the A and B sample is simply good science. In medicine and in science in general, testing can produce unexpected results. Scientists usually have the benefit of a control sample, but the human body itself can vary as much as a kilogram in weight over the course of a day; even your own body is different to your body. Statistics made from samples smaller than 100 are generally considered unreliable and rather horrifyingly, as many as 1 in 100 HIV tests turn a false positive.

The B sample does usually turn the same result, but not always. As the results of prosecution for a positive drugs test are often quite dire for a player's career, it is only sensible that a certain error margin is taken into account.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

 

[usy]

I hope it doesn't lead to PCB re-ban Shoaib Akhtar, because that was the first and only drug thing he was involved in I remember, which he shouldn't have.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

At first, I figured he could be forgiven. He was young, it was a honest mistake.
Then he is caught with drugs here, and now this. He deserves a ban....

 

[Sureshot]

They don't just put the urine under a microscope and see little pills everywhere. It's very complicated and many drugs are still not reliably tested. A lot of drugs are simply synthetic human hormones, such as Human Growth Hormone or Erythropoietin, which cyclists use to increase red blood cell count. The most familiar doping agent, anabolic steroids are simply derivatives of the male sex hormone, testosterone. Although the term steroid is generally associated with drugs that cause muscle growth, it simply means a fat soluble organic compound. Corticosteroids, for example, are a common medicine derived from the hormones of the adrenal gland (such as adrenaline, which every sportsman is using naturally). It is the term anabolic that produces this effect, meaning it initiates the body's process of building proteins and cell components from energy and raw materials.

The anabolic steroid Shoaib Akhtar tested positive to in 2006, nandrolone, is actually produced naturally in the human body, albeit in miniscule amounts. It is also not directly tracable in urine. Testing for nandrolone is based on finding the molecules that are produced as the body uses the nandrolone. In the case of this and many drugs, the test is positive merely if a natural chemical is present in abnormal quantity. Likewise, in certain circumstances it can be argued that that abnormality has been created through acceptable circumstances.

The process of the A and B sample is simply good science. In medicine and in science in general, testing can produce unexpected results. Scientists usually have the benefit of a control sample, but the human body itself can vary as much as a kilogram in weight over the course of a day; even your own body is different to your body. Statistics made from samples smaller than 100 are generally considered unreliable and rather horrifyingly, as many as 1 in 100 HIV tests turn a false positive.

The B sample does usually turn the same result, but not always. As the results of prosecution for a positive drugs test are often quite dire for a player's career, it is only sensible that a certain error margin is taken into account.

You've told me nothing I don't already know. It's an anomaly if a test is wrong. I do agree that it makes perfect sense to have a second sample, I didn't put my point across well though. That point being that a second sample showing the opposite of the first sample is very small. To expect it would give a different result isn't realistic.

I haven't put my point across well though, but it doesn't matter, tests could show that Asif has smoked all the opium in Afghanistan, we all know he'll be treated with a feather duster as opposed to an iron fist.

 

[usy]

I haven't put my point across well though, but it doesn't matter, tests could show that Asif has smoked all the opium in Afghanistan, we all know he'll be treated with a feather duster as opposed to an iron fist.

maybe he was forced by the taliban.

 

[Pak_cricketer]

I don't feel offence, I have the sightedness of being ashamed at my countries Cricket Board.

What the hell does the PCB have to do with any of this?

 

[usy]

They didn't ban him before.

Ain't nobody tell me PCB has a code of conduct for the players, because there ain't none for the bloody chairman and the board members, themselves.

 

[Kev]

They didn't ban him before.

Ain't nobody tell me PCB has a code of conduct for the players, because there ain't none for the bloody chairman and the board members, themselves.

 

[Pak_cricketer]

They didn't ban him before.

Ain't nobody tell me PCB has a code of conduct for the players, because there ain't none for the bloody chairman and the board members, themselves.

They saved his life from what could have been more than just a ban.