At a time when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) finds itself entangled in a dispute over anti-doping processes with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), a former India all-rounder has found himself suspended for breaching a doping protocol.
The Hindu understands that the all-rounder who is no longer a regular in the international arena was found to have been guilty of a doping offence during a routine test conducted during the 2016-17 domestic season.
Once the result of the test was found positive, the player was withdrawn from his team's Ranji campaign mid-way through the recently-concluded premier First Class tournament in India.
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The player continues to be provisionally suspended and an official announcement is likely to be made later this week.
The all-rounder will thus join Delhi's Pradeep Sangwan, who served an 18-month suspension from 2013 after being found guilty of a doping breach during the Indian Premier League. The ICC had recently banned Afghanistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Shahzad for a doping violation.
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According to BCCI insiders, the doping incident will not vitiate the turmoil between itself and the WADA and the NADA. Despite the NADA making a case for the BCCI to come under its purview, the BCCI has continually opposed it, citing its testing samples at WADA-designated laboratories.
BCCI chief executive Rahul Johri had also touched upon the issue during his meeting with Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in New Delhi late last year.