Pakistan's woes do not seem to end. Their main strike bowler Mohammed Asif, who had started developing as a fine bowler of international eminence now has to face the slur of being involved in a drug abuse.

Cricket which was called a gentleman's game has now started receiving quite a lot of media attention internationally and it is more to do so with the fact that there is a quite a lot of money being poured by the corporate houses. No wonder, the controversy of a financial kind involving Stanford, who is from USA, where no cricket is played at all is already rocking the boat of English and Welsh Cricket Board. So the Boards all over the world, and the watch bodies, which have been mandated to look after the affairs of cricket to let it remain a gentleman's game, have started taking their role seriously.

It has not happened for the first time that a player has been found involved in substance abuse. In the past as well, players of the likes of Ian Botham, Sarfaraz Nawaz etc., have also been involved in drug related controversy, and they had also been asked to come clean on their own.

The Senior Manager, Media Relations and Communications, of WADA, Frederic Donze, informed from Montreal on Monday that under the IPL rules, WADA has no right of appeal in first instance. The IPL rules give WADA a right of appeal in second instance. “In this particular case, given that the parties allowed appealing in first instance (the player and the IPL) chose not to appeal the initial decision within the deadline set forth; WADA could not pursue the matter further.”

The IPL anti-doping code, however, states in the relevant rule (15.2): “Appeals from decisions regarding anti-doping code violations, consequences, and provisional suspensions:

“A decision that an anti-doping code violation was committed, a decision imposing consequences for an anti-doping code violation, a decision that no anti-doping code violation was committed, a decision that the IPL lacks jurisdiction to rule on an alleged anti-doping code violation or its consequences, may be appealed exclusively as provided in this clause 15.2.

It is a moot point whether WADA can go straight in appeal to CAS.

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