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Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad has been banned for 4 months for violating anti-doping rules after he examined certain for a prohibited substance in Might, the rustic’s cricket board (PCB) mentioned on Friday.The PCB provisionally suspended Shehzad in July after his in-competition urine pattern gathered right through the Pakistan Cup home event had examined certain. An unbiased evaluation board had showed the lead to June.

His four-month suspension is efficacious from July 10.

The board mentioned the 26-year-old authorised that he dedicated the violations however had no purpose to cheat or make stronger his efficiency.

“PCB has a 0 tolerance coverage in opposition to doping in cricket and hopes that during long term cricketers will workout utmost care to be sure that no prohibited elements input their device,” PCB chairman Ehsan Mani mentioned in a remark.

The remark didn’t specify the substance for which Shehzad had examined certain.

As part of his rehabilitation procedure, Shehzad can even need to ship lectures on anti-doping because the PCB would possibly require.

Shehzad closing performed for Pakistan within the two-match Twenty20 sequence in Scotland in June.

First Revealed: October 6, 2018, 12:18 AM IST