Asif asked to pay legal costs

LAHORE: Dope-tainted pacer Mohammad Asif"s miseries doesn"t seem to end as the troubled Pakistani cricketer has now been slapped with a whopping bill as the legal costs for his release from detention in Dubai earlier this year.

Asif was detained for 19-days in Dubai for possession of a banned substance and the Pakistan cricket Board had hired the legal firm, Afridi and Angel, to represent the pacer in the case contested with the Dubai police.

Sources said the bill was in thousands of dirhams and Asif, shaken by the demand, has told PCB that the representative of the Board Nadeem Akram, sent to assist him in Dubai in June, had bothered to visit him just once at the detention centre during his nearly two weeks stay in Dubai.

Asif has already submitted an application to the present PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt for release of money due to him as per his central contract with the Board even though he was at present suspended.