Rawalpindi: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif will appear before a drug tribunal in India next week.
Asif faces a ban of up to two years after the B sample of a drug test taken during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 competition on May 30 tested positive last week at the World Anti-Doping Agency's laboratory in Switzerland.
The News newspaper quoted Asif's lawyer Shahid Karim as saying by "I had asked for some clarifications from the Indian Premier League on the doping case of Asif and would be travelling to India next week to attend a tribunal hearing."
Asif's B sample reading indicated 5.4mg of the steroid nandrolone, compared to the 6.2mg found in the A sample of the test taken while the player was contesting the IPL for the Delhi Daredevils.
