BCCI warns against speculating player's identity

The Indian board has warned against speculation on the identity of the player who tested positive for dope in the Indian Premier League. "Don't jump the gun on any player because it is not fair until and unless the whole process is carried out," said Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI's chief administrative officer.

Shetty said the BCCI will follow the ICC's anti-doping code, recognised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to deal with the situation and said the entire procedure make take a "few days".

He said the BCCI, which runs the IPL, had received a WADA notification from the ICC about a player testing positive but the identity of the player in question was still unknown at this stage. "We don't have the name of the player yet. The code [given to each player during testing] is with the WADA, who will need to match it and give us the name after wich the IPL's medical team will take over", Shetty said.

Last week, IDTM, a Sweden-based independent agency, attested by the WADA, carried out tests on samples it had collected during random testing during the IPL at the WADA-approved laboratory in Switzerland. Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, confirmed on Sunday, that one sample was found "positive."