ICC aiming to have worldwide doping policy in place next year

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2003

MELBOURNE (AFP) — The International Cricket Council (ICC) is aiming to have a worldwide doping policy in place before the Champions' Trophy tournament in England next September, ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed has said here.

He said the ICC would meet soon with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), whose president Dick Pound criticised Cricket Australia (CA) earlier this year over the Shane Warne doping controversy.

"We are looking at a generic doping program that will go across the top of cricket," Speed said Friday.

"We are about to have meetings with WADA to look at adopting the WADA program. There is some opposition within cricket to that."

Speed said the major issue was a mandatory two-year sentence for a first offence.

Warne received a...