On Saturday,
the BCCI slapped an 18-month ban on Pradeep Sangwan, the left-arm seamer found
guilty of violating the doping regulations of the Board.
It was
always in the offing. The media had reported the tenure of the ban about a
couple of weeks back. Chetan Chauhan was quoted as saying that they tried to
help the bowler by getting the ban reduced. However, it didn’t happen. The ban,
which begins on May 6 this year will run until November 5, 2014.
Sources say Sangwan
seems to have been given an injection to relieve him of shoulder pain by a local
doctor during the Vijay Hazare one-dayers just before the IPL. Delhi won the
Vijay Hazare Trophy.
“I am still
hopeful. I think the BCCI can reduce the ban using the clause 10.5.3,” Sangwan
told Delhi Cricket last night.
This clause
states:
"An anti-doping organisation ... may ... suspend a part of
the period of ineligibility imposed in an individual case where the athlete or
other person has provided substantial assistance to an anti-doping
organisation, criminal authority or professional disciplinary body which
results in the anti-doping organisation discovering or establishing an
anti-doping rule violation by another person or which results in a criminal or
disciplinary body discovering or establishing a criminal offence or the breach
of professional rules by another person ... No more than three-quarters of the
otherwise applicable period of ineligibility may be suspended."
It actually
means that if the Anti-doping body applies this clause in the case of Sangwan
he will have to serve the ban for six months – it should end on November 5.
The penalty
is being termed as harsh by the Delhi cricket officials. A doping offence by
New Zealand’s Jesse Ryder got him six months’ ban while the maximum punishment
meted out in cricket has been to Shane Warne and that’s been for 1 year.
The anti-doping
official PS Chandran, however, says that the penalty for such violations is for
two years. If he is being given for 18 months, it means the anti-doping agency
is being a bit lenient, according to Chandran.
Sangwan
feels the BCCI will try and look into the matter and use the particular clause
to reduce ban.
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