Cricket: Kusal Perera faces polygraph test

Sri Lanka opening batsman Kusal Janith Perera who was recalled from Sri Lanka’s tour of New Zealand in December last year and subsequently suspended over the usage of the banned substance ‘nandrolone’ has been subjected to  two more tests by the ICC, according to informed sources. 

It is said that the ICC authorities have carried out two polygraph tests including a Hair Test on March 8 and 9 and are awaiting the results. 

A source close to SLC stated: “We are waiting for the results of the two polygraph tests done on him. Once the results are out we are hoping to move into action. Initially we have to get the ICC authorities to give us an early hearing and then the lawyers will take over the defense so that the sentence will be a lenient one”. 

Earlier the SLC has been advised that a sample provided by Kusal Janith Perera for random testing carried out by the ICC during the recent Pakistani Tour, yielded a positive result for a banned substance.

Once there were reports claiming that the test was positive because of drugs he had taken to treat a leach bite on the recommendation of a physiotherapist but they failed to inform the ICC about the usage of the substance. 

Kusal Janith Perera’s sample was tested positive after the tests were carried out in a laboratory in Qatar.