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Pakistan cricket team manager Talat Ali has recommended counselling for controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar after his latest brawl with teammate Mohammad Asif in South Africa.
Sources said today that Talat in his report to the Pakistan Cricket Board and disciplinary committee has recommended that Shoaib needed to be counselled for his attitude and behaviour. “Talat has even said that if necessary he should have a session with a psychiatrist,” the source said. Talat also said the pacer be slapped with only a heavy fine and a ban of five international matches on the temperamental fast bowler who was sent back from South Africa after he hit Asif with a bat during the row in the dressing room.
