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Ajmal pulls out of WCup

PAKISTAN’S Saeed Ajmal ruled himself out of the World Cup on Saturday after the 37-year-old suspended offspinner decided not to go for official testing of his suspect bowling action.

“Ajmal himself withdrew from the official testing which effectively means he has withdrawn from the World Cup,” the Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman Agha Akbar said. Akbar said Ajmal will hold a news conference in the coming days and will give more details about his decision. The PCB earlier said that only Mohammad Hafeez will visit India next week for unofficial testing of his bowling action while Ajmal will continue to work on his bowling action with former test spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Mushtaq Ahmed back home. Ajmal was suspended in September by the ICC while Hafeez was banned from bowling in international cricket earlier this month after his action was found to be illegal during the first test against New Zealand.




 

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