 ICC amends anti-doping code to provide for appeal to CAS
3rd Jul 2007 22:36 IST
Agencies
Embarrassed by the recent CAS ruling in the WADA-Pakistan Cricket Board case, the International Cricket Council has amended its Anti-Doping Code providing for an appeal to CAS in case of a dispute involving its members.
"Following this case, we have amended the ICC Anti-Doping Code to ensure we have more powers to intervene if we feel a Member is not doing all it can in the fight against drugs in cricket," ICC's Acting Chief Executive Faisal Hasnain said in a statement today.
"In line with the amendments, the ICC now has a right of appeal if a Member that is not WADA-compliant makes a decision which is inconsistent with the WADA code.
"Furthermore, while such an appeal is pending, the relevant players can be target tested by the ICC up to 60 days before one of our events."
CAS, the apex court for judging on disputes in sports, rejected yesterday an appeal by WADA against the PCB's overturning a doping ban on its fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif.
CAS said that it had no jurisdiction to rule in the case since the statutes of neither the ICC nor the PCB had a direct reference providing for an appeal to CAS in such matters.
Akhtar and Asif tested positive for nandrolone in an in-house testing programme by the PCB prior to the ICC Champions Trophy in India last October.
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