John Campbell, the West Indies opener, was charged with doping violations in late April. According to the West Indies Players’ Association, Jamaica’s Anti-Doping Commission has held a preliminary hearing since the allegations against Campbell.
However, Campbell’s anti-doping hearing was adjourned until Tuesday, August 2, despite an inquest (trial) scheduled for July 19. The West Indies Players’ Association said in a brief statement that the matter had been adjourned, without saying whether any evidence had been heard on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Kent Gammon.
Jamaica’s anti-doping agency alleged that the left-hander breached WADA’s whereabouts rule, which requires a player to be suspended three months in advance and spend an hour each day from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. When they are available for out-of-competition testing.
He was accused of refusing to provide a sample to JADCO doping control officials, who also held a disciplinary hearing to determine whether he refused to provide a test sample to representatives of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO).
A player can be considered to be in violation of the anti-doping rules for “skipping, refusing or failing to submit a sample” and can be banned from cricket for up to four years if found guilty.
Accordingly, the 29-year-old Jamaican batsman John Campbell was banned for four years on Friday by a three-member independent panel after it was proved that he missed, refused, or failed to submit the sample collection by JADCO on April 20, 2022.
According to the 18-page decision, Campbell’s ban will resume until early May this year. Up until the game, it was unclear whether Campbell intended to appeal the ban.
On the evidence presented, the panel did not find that the athlete’s anti-doping violation was not intentional. According to sections of the reports:
“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.”
“In the circumstances of this case, the athlete is ineligible for a period of four years, as per JADCO Rule 10.3.1, and the time will be counted from the date of the athlete’s notification of the anti-doping rule violation that is from the 10th of May 2022.”
Earlier, chief selector Desmond Haynes spoke about opener John Campbell at a press conference. There he said that John will be played very well against Bangladesh with the captain.
“You can see that he is very determined. He wants to do well. The way he and Kraigg bat together, they tend to bounce off of each other.”
Batted well with Brathwaite in the concluded Bangladesh Test series. Together they formed 44, one, 100, and 13 good partnerships and Haynes said he will give the team a good start that it hasn’t had in years.
“We’ve given John a run, and we’re hoping he will continue. He looks the part to me. One or two against Bangladesh were a little bit unfortunate… but apart from that, he has given us some good starts, something we weren’t getting years ago.”