Nawaz admits anti-doping code violation, ICC says substance used exterior competitors
Cricket – ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 – Group A – India v Pakistan – R. Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Reuters
Mohammad Nawaz has been sanctioned by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) after testing optimistic for a cannabis-related substance, the governing body said on Friday, with the all-rounder being handed a three-month ban that may be decreased upon completion of a rehabilitation programme.
The 32-year-old examined optimistic for Carboxy-THC – a metabolite of THC, the psychoactive part in hashish – after Pakistan’s Twenty20 World Cup match in opposition to the Netherlands in February.
Carboxy-THC is classed as a Substance of Abuse beneath the ICC’s Anti-Doping Code.
Nawaz admitted the violation and demonstrated that the substance had been used out of competitors in a fashion unrelated to sporting efficiency, the ICC stated.
The all-rounder was handed a three-month suspension, backdated to Could 1, the date he began a voluntary provisional suspension. The ICC stated that after serving about two and a half months beneath the provisional suspension and agreeing to endure rehabilitation, his provisional suspension had been lifted.
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The governing physique added that, in line with its anti-doping code, Nawaz’s data from the Netherlands match on February 7 and subsequent matches till Could 1 have been disqualified.
Nawaz featured in all seven of Pakistan’s matches at this yr’s males’s T20 World Cup, from their opening sport in opposition to the Netherlands via the Tremendous Eights stage, the place they have been eradicated. He scored 15 runs and took seven wickets in the match.
