Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif was, on Wednesday, handed a one-year ban by the Indian Premier League(IPL) Drugs Tribunal for failing a dope test during the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 tournament last year.
After receiving the test report of Asif’s blood sample, the IPL drug tribunal has confirmed that Mohammad Asif had used banned drugs during the IPL series previous year. The ban will be effective from September 22, 2008 and he cannot play IPL cricket up to September 15, 2009, according to the decision.
After finding the 26-year-old fast bowler guilty of violating the anti-doping code, the IPL Drug Tribunal, chaired by legal expert Shirish Gupte, made the formal announcement today though it arrived at the decision yesterday.
"The year's ineligibility for Mohammad Asif's ban runs from as September 22, 2008 as that was the date when the IPL had imposed the suspension order, post which the cricketer has not been allowed to play any match," the release said.
Asif, playing for Delhi Daredevils. The right-handed fast bowler has a series of run-ins with controversies and was detained in the Dubai airport for 19 days last June with 0.24 grams of opium in his possession when he was returning home after playing in the IPL.
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