Duleep Trophy 2018: Selectors avoid the blunder by defeating the cricket player

Akshay Wadkar has been included in the India Red team for the Duleep Trophy. (Source: PTI)

The NATION Selection Committee avoided a big gaffe Monday by replacing Abhishek Gupta, who had first been selected despite a doping suspension, with Akshay Wadkar in the team India Red for the Duleep Trophy. The 27-year-old Punjab clerk is currently serving an eight-month ban on doping violations. Incidentally, BCCI sent a press release announcing the retrospective suspension of Gupta as recently as 7 June.

The Duleep Trophy teams were announced Monday afternoon. But MSK Prasad & Co, who had met in Kolkata, made a correction by adding Widkar goalkeeper Vidarbha to the Red Devils team. Sources at the BCCI indicated that the selection committee had not received the list of players likely to be banned before sitting down to pick the teams. Saba Karim, chief executive of the Indian Board of Cricket, is currently on vacation in the UK. And it was learned that those who were in charge of cricket matters in the country were not providing Prasad & Co with details about Gupta's ban.

"The BCCI anti-doping team noticed that Mr. Abhishek Gupta was initially added to the Red Indian team serving an 8-month ban for a doping violation. His ban is expected to end on 14 September 2018. "This is how the BCCI press release arrived late on Monday night explained confusion over Gupta's inclusion. The Duleep Trophy will begin Aug. 17 and end Sept. 7, one week before the lifting of the Punjab goalkeeper's ban.

According to the publication of June 7, Gupta had provided a urine sample as part of the anti – BCCI. doping test program at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on January 15th in New Delhi. "His sample was then tested and found to contain terbutaline.Therbutaline, a specified substance, is banned both in and out of competition in the list of substances banned by WADA," he said. added. On April 17, Gupta was charged with the commission of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) pursuant to Section 2.1 of the BCCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR) and provisionally suspended pending determination of the # 39; accusation. Gupta was told to have responded to the charge by admitting ADRV, but baderting that it was inadvertently being caused by the ingestion of drugs containing the drug. Terbutaline that had been prescribed to him by his doctor. Later, BCCI was pleased with Gupta's explanation and handed him the retro-dated eight-month ban. "The period of ineligibility of eight months will therefore be supposed to have started on January 15, 2018, so it will end at midnight on September 14, 2018," the statement said.

The loss of Gupta will be Wadkar's win is also a deserved opportunity for the leaders men of Vidarbha, given his impressive performance in his team's first Ranji Trophy victory earlier this year. The players of India A & B pbad the yo-yo test

Meanwhile, the selection committee announced the teams of India A and B, which will participate in the quadrangular series with the South Africa A and Australia A. undergo yo-yo testing in the coming days. Sanju Samson's goaltender drummer was included in the team of India A. Samson had been dropped for the round of India A in England because he failed the yo test -yo last month. We learn that he will be submitted to the yo-yo test again.

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