SLC denies seeking compensation from ICC over doping case

  Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is contemplating course of action with regard to Kusal Janith Perera’s anti-doping case, sources said. 

However, SLC denies any claims or compensation from the International Cricket Council (ICC) so far for the expenses in clearing his name. 

Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Kusal Perera was declared free to return to cricket after the International Cricket Council lifted his provisional suspension for an anti-doping violation. 

Perera’s suspension came in December 2015, after an out-of-competition urine sample tested positive for the anabolic steroid 19-Norandrostenedione, while his B sample too was found to contain the substance. 

However, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory in Qatar last week withdrew its “adverse analytical finding” after an independent review by the ICC said the results from Perera’s samples were “not sustainable”. 

The ICC statement said: “Whilst the independent expert concluded that the Qatar laboratory had correctly identified 19-Norandrostenedione in the samples, that expert’s view was that an adverse analytical finding by the laboratory was not sustainable, because, for various scientific and technical reasons, it could not be ruled out that the 19-Norandrostenedione was produced naturally in the player’s body and/or formed in the samples after the player provided them.”