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| February 18, 2003 | Tuesday | Zul Hijjah 16, 1423 |
Panel for Warne’s hearing named
MELBOURNE, Feb 17: The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) announced on Monday they had appointed a panel of three for the anti-doping committee hearing for Shane Warne.
The leg spinner withdrew from the World Cup in South Africa last week after testing positive for a banned diuretic.
Justice Glen Williams from the Queensland State Court of Appeal will chair the ACB hearing with former Test off-spinner Peter Taylor, who has also been a national selector, and medical specialist Susan White making up the rest of the panel.
Victoria Supreme Court Judge Justice Bill Gillard, who has previously chaired an ACB anti-doping committee, ruled himself out of the case because he had represented Warne in a short procedural matter about 10 years ago, the ACB said in a statement.
ACB spokesman Peter Young said the board were waiting on the player and the Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA) to complete the confidential testing process before the matter could be heard by a panel.
“Once we hear the testing process is finalised and there is no technical challenge (the B-sample was analysed in Sydney last week) then we set up a hearing,” Young said.
“If we get advice today, we would try to set up a hearing by the end of this week.”
Warne could be banned for two years for taking the diuretic before appearing at a news conference in Sydney on Jan 22 to announce his retirement from one-day cricket following the World Cup.
The 33-year-old made his comeback from a shoulder injury a day later in a One-day International against England in Sydney.
Warne was the player of the match in Australia’s win over Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup final at Lord’s and has taken 291 wickets in One-day Internationals and 491 (second on the all-time list) in Tests.
Warne stunned the cricketing world on Feb 11 when he held a news conference in Johannesburg, only an hour before Australia began their World Cup defence, announcing the positive dope test.
He said his mother had given him a fluid-reducing pill which contained a banned diuretic.
“Contrary to speculation, taking it had nothing to do with the treatment for my shoulder injury or for masking any banned substance,” Warne told reporters in Melbourne last week.—Reuters
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