RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) on Friday imposed one-match ban on PIA’s forward Shafqat Rasool for abusing umpires.

During PIA’s match against the PAF, Shafqat sought a foul, however, umpire paid no heed to it.

To this, he became furious and used abusive and aggressive language against the said decision.

He was shown the yellow card. “In today’s match we noticed that he (Shafqat) openly challenged several decisions of umpires and used abusive language against them.

“All the three umpires submitted written complaints against him,” said tournament director retired Col Nadeem Ahmed Bhatti.

He said Shafqat had therefore been banned from playing the next match.

Sources said the player had been found guilty of the same offence even in the past.

Published in Dawn January 24th , 2015

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