New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Pradeep Sangwan was slapped with an 18-month ban on Saturday after being found guilty of consuming a banned anabolic steroid by the BCCI’s Anti-Doping Tribunal.
The ban on the 23-year-old Delhi cricketer has been imposed with retrospective effect from May this year when the IPL took place.
“The anti-doping case initiated against the Player Pradeep Sangwan by the BCCI before the Anti-Doping Tribunal constituted under the BCCI Anti-Doping Code, was concluded on 1st October 2013, and the written Decision issued by the Anti-Doping Tribunal was received on 18th October 2013,” the BCCI said in a statement.
“The Tribunal has found that the Player has committed an Anti-Doping Violation under Article 2.1 of the Code for the presence of the Prohibited Substance Stanozolol, an Anabolic Steroid,” it added.
The tribunal heard him out on October 1 during which he claimed that he consumed the steroid accidentally when his gym instructor offered it to him as a remedy for fat reduction.
Sangwan is only the second cricketer in the history of IPL after Pakistani speedster Mohammed Asif to have been found guilty of consuming banned drugs. (PTI)
