In athletics, where they're much stricter on PEDs than in cricket, failure to participate in three drug tests is equivalent to failing a test....
This is a tale of two drug bans:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Br ... ded-_60522" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Jamaican cricketer Odean Brown was yesterday suspended for 15 months by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary panel after committing a whereabouts violation by missing three consecutive out-of-competition drug tests. The 34-year-old leg-spinner, who has represented the Jamaica senior team since February 2004, was not served the maximum 24-month ban and can return to competitive action on February 24, 2017. His suspension will be backdated and is effective from November 24, 2015, which in essence is a ninemonth ban. The bowler, who most recently played for Jamaica in March 2015, has taken 255 wickets in 67 first-class."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/co ... 12617.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
'Perera, the Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman, is free to resume playing cricket with immediate effect after the ICC lifted the provisional suspension imposed on him for doping. The ICC said there was no decisive evidence that Perera, who was suspended in December 2015, had used performance-enhancing substances after a detailed examination of the Qatar-based testing facility's finding 19-Norandrostenedione - the banned substance - in Perera's sample. The withdrawal is the result of a sustained challenge from Perera's legal team, who according to the ICC "in a recent letter", had "suggested for the first time that the Qatar laboratory might have misidentified impurities in the samples as 19-Norandrostenedione, given the very low concentrations of that substance found in the samples".'
In one case, JADCO, which also runs drug tests in all other sports in Jamaica, including track and field, was pretty clear and straightforward. You miss a number of tests, and you're banned. But in the second case, I don't see the Sri Lankan drug-testing authority mentioned once. It seems that the ICC is taking a worryingly hands-on approach, and they're muddying the waters, almost looking for excuses not to ban Kusal. World cricket is not taking PEDs seriously at all...why isn't the ICC and the WICB forcing Andre Russell to face JADCO to answer similar charges to those faced by Odean Brown? Instead, he's allowed to play in the IPL, as if nothing has happened.
"It is a reminder that cricket cannot be lackadaisical about the risks of drug usage. Like baseball, it considers itself a predominantly skill-based game, in theory making the appeal of drugs far lower than in physical contact sports. Yet such complacency should be averted, especially in the age of Twenty20 cricket, when more attention is paid to power hitting and fielding. The issue of performance-enhancing drugs was barely raised during the recent World Twenty20. That was curious considering the situation of one of the West Indies’ leading players, the dynamic all-rounder Andre Russell. Before he thrived in the tournament, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission announced that Russell had missed three drugs tests in a year, contravening World Anti-Doping Agency whereabouts rules, whereby athletes must tell their local agency where they will be for at least one hour each day. Six weeks on, Russell is still waiting for his date with the Jamaica Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel. In the meantime, he has won the World T20, and is now playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. It is understood that it will take another three to four weeks just for a date to be set for his preliminary hearing."
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/sport/cr ... s-problem/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This is just another reason why I prefer track and field athletics...they're far more serious about these issues than cricket right now.
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Mike throwing him FELLOW EUROPEAN under di bus again? 
