JAMAICA and West Indies opener John Campbell has been banned for four years by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) after failing to provide a blood sample to doping control officers in April 2022.
In an 18-page ruling, Campbell who was charged with evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection, a three-member independent panel, found that the player was intentional in his actions.

“The panel is persuaded to a comfortable degree of satisfaction that the athlete committed an anti-doping rule violation, namely a breach of JADCO rule 2.3. The panel does not find, on the evidence presented, that the athlete’s anti-doping violation was not intentional.

“In the circumstances of this case, the athlete is ineligible for a period of four years.”
The ban takes effect retroactively in May 2022.

The 29-year-old left-handed batter has played 20 Tests for the West Indies since he debuted in January 2019 against England.
In those Tests, he scored 888 runs at an average of 26.11 and included three half-centuries. His last Test was against Bangladesh in June 2022. (SportMax)