New Zealand seamer Doug Bracewell, 34, has been suspended for one month by the nation’s inside Sports activities Tribunal after testing optimistic for cocaine. The suspension is backdated to April 2024 and has already been served.
Bracewell “was provisionally suspended with out opposition” in April after an in-competition take a look at returned an ‘adversarial analytical discovering.’ The take a look at was administered on January 13 after the match between Central Stags and Wellington Firebirds in New Zealand’s home T20 league, Tremendous Smash. Bracewell took 2 for 21 with the ball and in addition scored 30 from 11 balls with the bat.
In accordance with ESPNCricinfo, a press release launched by the tribunal says that Bracewell “admitted utilizing cocaine however maintained that his use occurred out-of-competition, being previous to midnight on the day earlier than the match, and that it was unrelated to sport efficiency”. The Sports activities Integrity Fee, although, believed ” the use should have occurred in-competition”.
Following subsequent hearings, the Fee finally “accepted Mr Bracewell’s place” and agreed on an acceptable sanction of three months which was lowered to 1 month and backdated after Bracewell had “satisfactorily accomplished a Substance of Abuse therapy programme permitted by the Fee.”
The final time Bracewell performed for New Zealand was in a Take a look at match in opposition to Sri Lanka in Wellington in March 2023. Throughout all three codecs of the sport, he has represented New Zealand in 69 Assessments, 21 ODIs, and 20 T20Is.
An everyday all through franchise cricket leagues the world over, Bracewell’s subsequent task is more likely to bethe Abu Dhabi T10 league, the place he is part of New York Strikers, after which on the SA20 in early 2025 when he’ll play for the Joburg Tremendous Kings.
