West Indies Batter John Campbell Banned For 4 Years For Doping Violation

Kingston: West Indies batter John Campbell has been banned from playing cricket for a span of four years by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission or JADCO for violating the anti-doping rule.

The 29-year-old batter has represented the Windies side in 20 test matches, Six One-day Internationals, and two T20 International matches.

JADCO accused Campbell of refusing to submit blood samples for tests at his home in Kingston during April.

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The Ban would start from May 10th this year according to the JADCO’s 10.31 rule. The three-member independent panel gave an 18-page decision on the matter of evading, refusing, or failing to submit the blood sample for required tests.

The Panel’s decision stated “The … panel is persuaded to a comfortable degree of satisfaction that the athlete committed an anti-doping rule violation, namely breach of JADCO rule 2.3. …,” the decision read in part. The panel does not find, on the evidence presented, that the athlete’s anti-doping violation was not intentional.”

“In the circumstances of this case, the athlete is ineligible for a period of 4 years.” The panel added

John Campbell is not the first West Indies player to suffer a ban due to doping violations. The Star all-rounder Andre Russell was banned for a year back in 2017.

Renowned names like Shane Warne, Yusuf Pathan, Alex Hales, and Prithvi Shaw are also on the list of cricket players to get banned for a certain period of time because of doping violation.

Doping Violations are not a trivial matter but instead require strict actions from both the respective cricket Board and Anti-Doping Commission.