Afghanistan's Mohammad Shahzad suspended for 12 months for doping violation [Update Post #16]

[Abdullah719]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that Afghanistan’s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been charged with an anti-doping rule violation under the ICC Anti-Doping Code.

The sample Shahzad provided in an out-of-competition test, which was conducted on 17 January 2017 at the ICC Academy in Dubai and analysed at the WADA-accredited laboratory in Salt Lake City, was found to contain the presence of Clenbuterol, a Prohibited Substance which appears in Section 1.2 of the WADA Prohibited List (in the category of other anabolic agents).

In accordance with the ICC Anti-Doping Code, pending the outcome of the disciplinary process, Shahzad will be provisionally suspended, with such suspension coming into effect on 26 April 2017, unless he exercises his right to challenge the imposition of the provisional suspension before such date.

The matter will now be dealt with in accordance with the process set down in the code, and until such time as the process is resolved, the ICC will make no further comment on this matter.

Next steps:

• Within five days from the date of the notice of the charge, Shahzad has the right to request that his B sample is analysed.
• Within 12 days from the date of the notice of charge, Shahzad can challenge the imposition of the provisional suspension at a provisional hearing, in which case the provisional suspension will not be imposed until the challenge is determined.
• If Shahzad decides not to exercise his right to challenge the imposition of the provisional suspension within the 12-day deadline, his provisional suspension will immediately commence on 26 April 2017.
• Shahzad has to respond to the charge within 14 days. If he fails to do so, he will be deemed to have waived his entitlement to a hearing and admitted to having committed the anti-doping rule violation.

 

[Major]

whats this drug used for?

 

[Syed1]

A simple Google search says that Clenbuterol is used by asthama patients to make breathing easier. Can any resident medical professionals tell us how it could be used as a performance enhancer?

 

[wasimjunior]

A simple Google search says that Clenbuterol is used by asthama patients to make breathing easier. Can any resident medical professionals tell us how it could be used as a performance enhancer?

Clen is a very popular steroid amongst weight lifters- used for fat loss/getting ripped up. Also potentially helps strength...

Can see why Shahzad was taking it.

 

[bleaf27]

It is a bronchodilator and is not a scheduled drug hence can be bought without prescription.
Used to relieve spasms in the airway smooth muscles.
Does have an anabolic effect thus to lose fat while maintaing lean tissue mass.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Probably took his wife's medication by accident. Either that or his mother gave it to him.

 

[kukkad kamaal]

Probably took his wife's medication by accident. Either that or his mother gave it to him.

I see what you did there

 

[Donal Cozzie]

whats this drug used for?

Can be used for weight loss also.

Emphasis on the "can" part, because in this case clearly it wasn't working.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

A simple Google search says that Clenbuterol is used by asthama patients to make breathing easier. Can any resident medical professionals tell us how it could be used as a performance enhancer?

Sounds like a beta 2 adrenergic agonist of the sams class as albuterol (ie what is called a bronchodilator). I'm not a biochemist but I highly doubt it can enhance performance. Remember the ICC banned Kusal Perera and then it was shown that normal physiology can produce the substance in the concentration detected. SLC got the ban overturned. So there is NO Reason to believe Shehzad is doping just based on this result.

ICC testing protocols are a joke. Taskin fails a bowling test, spends 6 months remodelling his action, then passes the test with NO CHANGE to his action. Brian Vitori in the space of 10 months takes the test 3 times with a different result each time (fail, pass, fail). Test isn't even uniform. Taskin bowled 42 deliveries in Chennai, but only 24 in Brisbane.

ICC can't even create a league, and here we are expecting them to understand the intricacies of molecular physiology or anatomic biomechanics.

 

[Saj]

Clenbutero -Although often used by bodybuilders during their "cutting" cycles,the drug has been more recently known to the mainstream, particularly through publicized stories of use by celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan, for its off-label use as a weight-loss drug similar to usage of other sympathomimetic amines such as ephedrine, despite the lack of sufficient clinical testing either supporting or negating such use.

 

[Specialisttailender]

Probably used to lose weight ).

 

[HitWicket]

ICC can't even create a league, and here we are expecting them to understand the intricacies of molecular physiology

No we don't we expect WADA to.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

No we don't we expect WADA to.

Who is WADA?

 

[HitWicket]

Who is WADA?

The World Anti-Doping Agency

 

[moghul]

I'm in medical profession.

Clenbuterol is not a steroid, anabolic or non-anabolic. Its a bronchodilator used for asthma patient. It stimulates and release more adrenaline like substance ( sympathomimetic effect ) , hence causes opening of lung airway. Theoratically it can increase your metabolism but the effect is too short after taking the meds and practically cannot help losing weight.

Its not dissimilar to the commonly used asthma medication Albuterol, so I don't know why it is among banned substances and why Shahzad took it. If it was given to him for asthma or he took for "wt loss ". I don't expect a long ban on him, may be 3-6 months, or just a warning.

 

[Abdullah719]

Afghanistan's Shahzad suspended for doping violation

The wicketkeeper-batsman had inadvertently ingested the prohibited substance, as a contaminant of a weight loss product he was taking, Hydroxycut.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been suspended from all cricket-related activities for twelve months after pleading guilty to breaching Article 2.1 of the ICC Anti-Doping Code.

Mr Shahzad had provided a urine sample as part of the ICC’s out-of-competition testing programme in Dubai, UAE, on 17 January 2017.

His sample was subsequently tested and found to contain clenbuterol. Clenbuterol is classified as a non-Specified Substance under WADA’s Prohibited List and is prohibited both in-competition and out-of-competition.

Mr Shahzad admitted the violation and a twelve-month suspension has been imposed, backdated to 17 January 2017, the date of his sample collection. Mr Shahzad will, therefore, be eligible to return to cricket on 17 January 2018.

In making the decision, the ICC accepted that Mr Shahzad had inadvertently ingested the prohibited substance, as a contaminant of a weight loss product he was taking, Hydroxycut.

Mr Shahzad was able to satisfy the ICC through evidence and submissions prepared on his behalf that he had no intention to enhance his sporting performance through the use of prohibited substances or to mask the use of another performance enhancing substance and had, instead, inadvertently ingested the prohibited substance after taking Hyrdoxycut supplements which were contaminated with Clenbuterol.

However, Mr Shahzad has accepted that he had failed to satisfy the high levels of personal responsibility incumbent upon him as an international cricketer subject to anti-doping rules.

“Today’s announcement reinforces the ICC’s zero-tolerance approach to doping, and reminds all international cricketers that they remain personally responsible for ensuring that anything they eat, drink or put into their bodies does not result in an anti-doping rule violation,” said ICC General Manager – Cricket, Geoff Allardice.

“It further serves as a reminder to all international cricketers of the dangers and risks associated with taking supplements. Before thinking about taking a supplement, cricketers should weigh up the risks and dangers of doing so and should fully research the supplement in question so they can make an informed decision” continued Mr Allardice.

 

[Amirforpresident]

Clenbuterol is used by bodybuilders to burn fat during their contest prep.