Sri Lankan cricketer caught in doping, banned from all formats of cricket

Niroshan Dickwella: Big news has come from the cricket world. Sri Lankan cricketer has been banned for failing the dope test. This Sri Lankan cricketer is wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella who has been banned from all formats of cricket. This ban has been imposed on Dickwella due to alleged anti-doping violations during the recently concluded Lanka Premier League (LPL). However, no official information has been revealed yet about how long this ban will last.

Newswire.lk quoted Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) sources as saying that Dickwella may face an indefinite ban while the investigation continues. An official announcement is expected soon from the board. Dickwella was the captain of the team Galle Marvels in LPL 2024. As an opener, he scored just 184 runs in 10 innings at a strike rate of 153.33. His team reached the final of the tournament, but lost badly to Jaffna Kings. Dickwella could score only five runs off 8 balls in the match.

Has a long association with controversies

The 31-year-old cricketer has a long association with controversies. Earlier in the year 2021, he was banned for a year along with Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis due to bio-bubble violation in England. He has not been a part of Sri Lanka for a long time. He played his last Test against New Zealand in March 2023 and his last white-ball international match as an ODI against Australia in June 2022. It has been a long time since he played T20I. On 21 June 2021, he played his last T20I match against England.

Career has been like this

If we look at the career of Niroshan Dickwella, he has played 54 Tests and 55 ODIs for Lanka. He has 2757 runs in Tests and 1604 runs in ODIs. He has also scored 2 centuries in ODIs. He has the experience of playing 28 matches in the shortest format of cricket. In T20I, his bat has produced 480 runs at a strike rate of 131.14, which includes just one century.