Asif to appeal ban

"I have filed a written appeal through my lawyer with the board," Asif said. "Hopefully it will prove successful."

Asif, a medium pace bowler, was banned from all cricket for a year after testing positive for nandrolone, a banned steroid.

Asif and fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar were sent home from the ICC Champions Trophy after the finding by a routine PCB test and found guilty by a special tribunal.

The appeal will be heard by a newly-formed panel made up of retired judge Fakhruddin Ebrahim, former Test player Hasib Ahsan and president of the Pakistan Sports Medicine Association, Dr. Danish Zaheer.

"The tribunal will hear the appeal and should give a verdict within seven days," a PCB official confirmed.

Akhtar - given a two-year ban for the same offence - is yet to file an appeal.