Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif tested positive for a banned substance during random testing at the Indian Premier League, the IPL announced on Monday.
Asif will now have the right to request that his 'B' sample [supplied at the same time as the one that tested positive] be sent for analysis, which he and his representative can attend along with an IPL representative. Asif was detained in Dubai for possession of contraband drugs last month for 19 days and he is already the subject of a board inquiry into those events.
''I have no clue about the dope test report and I have not been informed about anything in this regard,'' Asif.
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar is one of the three-member Indian Premier League drugs tribunal that will decide the fate of Asif, who failed a dope test in the inaugural edition of the multi-million dollar Twenty20 event.
