Zimbabwe ban duo for 4 months, third participant charged, over drug use

Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has banned nationwide crew gamers Wessly Madhevere and Brandon Mavuta from enjoying for 4 months after they had been discovered responsible of leisure drug use, with a 3rd participant now going through an analogous cost.

The ban is successfully a slap on the wrist for all-rounders Madhevere and Mavuta, because the Zimbabwe nationwide crew has no fixtures scheduled for the interval of their suspension. They have additionally been fined the equal of half of their ZC salaries for 3 months.

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“As they undergo rehabilitation overseen by ZC medical personnel, they have also been ordered to train under ZC’s High Performance programme,” a ZC assertion stated on Thursday.

“The (Disciplinary) Committee also considered some mitigating factors, with both players showing remorse and having already started working on withdrawing from the habit and getting their systems clean.”

The two gamers had been discovered responsible of breaching the ZC Employment Code of Conduct following an in-house doping check in December.

Batter Kevin Kasuza, who has been suspended pending a listening to after he too examined optimistic for a banned leisure drug final week, might face an analogous ruling.