BREAKING: Andre Russell gets one-year ban
Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Jamaica and West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has been slapped with a one year ban by the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel after breaching the World Anti-doping Agency code by being negligent about filing his whereabouts.
Russell, failed to file his whereabouts form on three occasions in 2015, which under WADA rules equate to one failed doping test.
The sentence was handed down at the Jamaica Conference Centre on Tuesday morning