The Pakistan Cricket Board will appeal Yasir Shah's provisional suspension for an anti-doping code violation.
PCB Chairman Shahryar Khan said the board will ask for a lenient penalty for Yasir, claiming that he mistakenly took his wife's blood pressure medication.
After testing positive to a banned substance last month, Yasir has been provisionally suspended pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.
"We are confident that he didn't do it intentionally. He is a very naive guy and took that medicine out of ignorance," Shahryar said.
"Yasir's family has high blood pressure problem and his uncles have suffered strokes and heart attacks due to it. He gets similar fears so whenever he suffers from high blood pressure he takes some tablets.
"Yasir's wife coincidentally is also a blood pressure patient and he mistakenly used her tablet without knowing that it contained a banned substance.
"The initial details we received regarding the medicine he had taken were incomplete. Now we have received the full details and our doctors have decided against asking for a sample B test.
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