Yasir Shah took banned drugs by mistake: PCB

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday said it will appeal against leg-spinner Yasir Shah’s provisional suspension for an anti-doping code violation, adding he had taken his wife’s blood pressure medicines by mistake. He was tested positive for a banned substance during Pakistan’s One-Day international series against England in the United Arab Emirates in November. “Yasir’s wife coincidentally is a blood pressure patient and he mistakenly used her tablet without knowing that it contained a banned substance,” PCB chairman Shahryar Khan was quoted as saying.