In September 2012 the English and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Pakistan Cricket Player Abdur Rehman after his A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance cannabis. After notification a provisional suspension was ordered. The Athlete admitted the violation and filed a statement in his defence.
The Athlete explained that a week before he provided a sample he was at a party where he had used alcohol and there he inadvertently had smoked cannabis as part of a roll-up cigarette which he had wrongly assumed to be a tobacco cigarette.
The ECB accepted the Athlete's explanation and considers the Athlete's prompt admission and cooperation in this case.
Therefore the ECB decides on 4 October 2012 to impose a 12 week period of ineligibility on the Athlete starting on the date of the provisional suspension, i.e. on 29 September 2012.
