New Zealand seamer Doug Bracewell serves one-month ban for cocaine use

According to ESPNCricinfo, a connection released by the tribunal says that Bracewell “admitted utilizing cocaine but maintained that his usage occurred out-of-competition, being anterior to midnight connected the time earlier the match, and that it was unrelated to athletics performance”. The Sports Integrity Commission, though, believed ” the usage indispensable person occurred in-competition”.

Following consequent hearings, the Commission yet “accepted Mr Bracewell’s position” and agreed connected an due authorisation of 3 months which was reduced to 1 period and backdated aft Bracewell had “satisfactorily completed a Substance of Abuse attraction programme approved by the Commission.”

The past clip Bracewell played for New Zealand was successful a Test lucifer against Sri Lanka successful Wellington successful March 2023. Across each 3 formats of the game, helium has represented New Zealand successful 69 Tests, 21 ODIs, and 20 T20Is.

A regular passim franchise cricket leagues crossed the world, Bracewell’s adjacent duty is apt to bethe Abu Dhabi T10 league, wherever helium is simply a portion of New York Strikers, and past astatine the SA20 successful aboriginal 2025 erstwhile helium volition play for the Joburg Super Kings.