The International Cricket Council will ask the World Anti-Doping Agency to consider a cricket-specific code for its controversial “whereabouts” rule, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told Indian media. The influential Indian cricket board rejected the WADA directive last month, backing its players’ refusal to sign up over security and privacy issues. The ICC became a [...]
Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif will fly to Mumbai early Thursday to appear before an Indian tribunal in a bid to clear his name of doping allegations that have stalled his career, his lawyer said. The 25-year-old tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone during the Indian Premier League (IPL) competition held between April and [...]
In an important landmark in Indian sport, National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) on Sunday received accreditation from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) during the global body’s Executive Committee meeting in Montreal, Canada. WADA said NDTL has fulfilled all the requirements of the accreditation process monitored by the Agency’s Laboratory Working Committee. NDTL now becomes the 34th [...]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has ensured “appropriate measures this time” to deal with the Mohammad Asif doping case, according to David Howman, Director General of WADA. WADA is aware about Asif’s intensions for asking more time for his B sampling procedure. “He has right to do so,” Howman, also a lawyer by profession, added. [...]
Beleaguered Pakistani pacer Mohd. Asif has requested Indian Premier League officials and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to postpone his ‘B’ sample test, scheduled for July 28, to next month to prepare for the case and make arrangements for travel documents, his lawyer said on Saturday. Asif’s lawyer Shahid Kazmi said the pacer was yet to [...]
Mohammed Asif, the Pakistan fast bowler suspended after failing a drugs test during the Indian Premier Legaue, has tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone. The news was confirmed by Asif’s lawyer, Shahid Karim on Thursday. Traces of the anabolic steroid were found in Asif’s sample when he first tested positive just before the Champions [...]
Mohammad Asif has asked for his B sample to be examined after being identified as the player who tested positive for a banned substance during the Indian Premier League. “We will fight the case because we believe that our client has not taken any drug so we will go for the B sample test and [...]
A sample taken from random testing at the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League has tested positive, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has confirmed. This is the first step of the verification process, Modi said, and there are several stages before a player is deemed to have failed the test. The tests were carried out [...]