Spark
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Sri Lanka news: Sri Lankan player tests positive during World cup | Sri Lanka Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
Uh oh. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Tests...
Uh oh. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Tests...
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Upul Tharanga returns positive drug test
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Why the hell has it taken so long for this to come out?
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
I'm not really comfortable with names being tossed around without anything to back it up - but it looks like a non-story in terms of drug abuse, rather an error of medical provenance.
EDIT: Saying that, Reuters.
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Lostman
State Captain
Not really an excuse.
Howe_zat
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Sri Lanka news: Upul Tharanga player tests positive during World cup | Sri Lanka Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
'Twas Tharanga, apparantly. Seems like something of a technicality, though. Can't see this causing too many problems besides a few matches off.
'Twas Tharanga, apparantly. Seems like something of a technicality, though. Can't see this causing too many problems besides a few matches off.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Seems like he was prescribed it for asthma - if he has a prescription, it's a non issue.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
shivfan
Banned
Don't be so quick to dismiss it as a non-issue....
Some asthma treatments have steroids which are banned by WADA as performance-enhancing drugs. What Tharanga should've done is declare his medication, and get it approved by his board's medical advisors. If he didn't do so, he only has himself to blame, and should serve any punishment that is dished out to him.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Yes, he should have declared it, and he might be punished. But the punishment will barely be a slap on the wrist. If it has a legitimate therapeutic purpose, no sports body is going to go against medical advice and ban him. You're allowed to take steroids on the WADA ban list if they are given for a medical condition (though you do have to file a certificate). If they didn't allow that, and something happened to the player because they didn't take the medication recommended by doctors, WADA and/or ICC would get owned in court. Plus it makes sense, why would they deny legitimate medical treatment to somebody?
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Bit hard to double guess what has happened until the ICC confirm the charge and the SL authorities and player himself respond (unless things have moved on overnight?).
If he was ill enough while on World Cup duty to need prednisolone then I'm sure there'll be a strong record of the illness, diagnosis and treatment with the SL medical team, in which case the player has nothing to be concerned about.
Were there any reports at the time of him struggling in matches or training?
If he was ill enough while on World Cup duty to need prednisolone then I'm sure there'll be a strong record of the illness, diagnosis and treatment with the SL medical team, in which case the player has nothing to be concerned about.
Were there any reports at the time of him struggling in matches or training?
Migara
Cricketer Of The Year
Rumors are that it was prescribed for a bout of allergic bronchospasms, possibly to pollen, during the game at Hambantota. But I cannot confirm this. But pretty daft not to take treatment from sports medical unit, as he was in the middle of a tournament. The case would have been clear if he was out for vacation at his home town 80km away from Colombo.
shivfan
Banned
More on that story here....
Sri Lanka news: SL ministry to investigate Tharanga's failed doping test | Sri Lanka Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
It's not a surprise that this story took some time to come out. WADA has a deliberate policy of not announcing failed tests, because of all the speculation it stirs up. WADA's highly unlikely to comment until the testing of the B sample. The news is usually leaked or announced by those who fail the tests....
However, it would be very surprising if the Sri Lankan authorities gave him medication that was on the banned list, and would be a sign of great incompetence on the part of the SL medical team. He would've had to apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE), in which case he would not have failed the drug test.
That said, cricket authorities are notoriously lax in enforcing regulations concerning PEDs. The cases of Shoaib Akhtar and Mo Asif are cases in point. In athletics, anyone who tests positive for nandrolone automatically gets a two-year ban, but those two Pakistani pacers got off scotfree....
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Who said it was the SL authorities? It might be his private physician.