By Julian Guyer
London, Jun twenty-four (AFP): Sri Lanka batsman Upul Tharanga was criminialized from all cricket for 3 months after unwell a drug exam during a World Cup in March, a International Cricket Council (ICC) voiced upon Friday.
Tharanga, 26, not comparison for a ongoing debate of England since of a charge, pleaded guilty after claiming a criminialized piece he took was in a herbal remedy.
An ICC row supposed he had not taken a pill with a target of enhancing his opening though still criminialized him for 3 months, back-dated from May.
Tharanga, supposing a urine representation as partial of a ICC’s pointless in-competition contrast programme after a end of a World Cup 2011 semi-final in between Sri Lanka as good as New Zealand, hold in Colombo upon Mar 29.
An eccentric anti-doping tribunal, comprising counsel Tim Kerr, QC, (chairman), Dr Anik Sax as good as Prof. Peter Sever supposed Tharanga’s reason he’d taken a pill to palliate annoy caused by a shoulder injury.
However, a matter released from a ICC’s Dubai domicile upon Friday, pronounced Tharanga had “failed to prove a tall levels of personal shortcoming substantial upon him as an general cricketer theme to anti-doping rules”.
The ICC matter re-iterated a tellurian ruling body’s zero-tolerance proceed to doping as good as warned all general players they sojourn “personally obliged for ensuring which anything they eat, splash or put in to their bodies (including any healing diagnosis they receive) does not give climb to an anti-doping order violation”.
Tharanga, a part of of a Sri Lanka side knocked about by India in a World Cup last in Mumbai in April, can resume personification cricket upon Aug 9.
He will be accessible again from a day prior to Sri Lanka’s home one-day general array opposite Australia. He will skip a stream debate of a United Kingdom as good as a dual Twenty20s which open Australia’s tour.
“I apologize to a fans as good as supporters of Sri Lanka cricket for inadvertently committing an offence,” Tharanga pronounced in a ICC statement.
“I goal my associate sportsmen will sense from my knowledge as good as be some-more observant when receiving healing treatment, so which their careers do not humour in a proceed which cave has.”
ICC arch senior manager Haroon Lorgat added: “We recognize which Upul has not been found guilty of on purpose cheating, though a ICC maintains a zero-tolerance proceed towards doping for a good of all a stakeholders.”
“Cases similar to this offer as a sign to all players which they contingency take good caring as good as personal shortcoming during all times for a substances which they consume,” a South African explained.
“I am confident with a tribunal’s preference as good as gratified during a proceed a ICC has rubbed this box with both attraction as good as efficiency.”
Sri Lanka’s Tharanga gets drug ban
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