Sri Lankan wicket keeper-batsman Kusal Perera faces a four-year ban after the country’s sports minister said the 25-year-old’s ‘B’ sample has also tested positive for a prohibited substance. The International Cricket Council (ICC) provisionally suspended Perera after he failed an out-of-competition anti-doping.
The 25-year-old was randomly tested during the recent Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka and the just released results were positive, Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement.
“The ICC has informed that his B sample also has been tested positive for a banned drug,” Sri Lanka sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekera told reporters.
List of some famous cricketers banned for Doping:
- Upul Tharanga
- Mohammad Asif & Shoaib Akhtar:
- Raza Hasan, Asim Butt, Abdur Rehman
- Ian Botham
- Shane Warne
- Stephen Fleming
- Pradeep Sangwan
About Kusal Perera:
- A Sri Lankan Cricketer.
- He plays Test cricket, One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Sri Lanka national cricket team.
- In domestic cricket, he plays for the Wayamba cricket team.
- He recently played for Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
- Kusal made his One day international debut againstAustralia on January 13, 2013,
