“Alcohol and drug
related crimes are on the rise in Chennai. In over 25 percent of criminal cases
in Chennai, the offender was inebriated during or before the crime,” says a
criminal lawyer, practising in Madras High Court.
His
descent from England’s premier all-rounder to prison is recounted in his
autobiography, Crazy: My Road to Redemption, a painfully honest account of how
he went from a Lords dressing room to a cramped prison cell. – know who ?
celebrating Kuldeep hattrick
Representing
the Nation is a great honour – performing powerfully ensuring a place in the next
match is great. This is about a bowler
who achieved the distinction of a hat-trick in his debut match (sadly has not
played ODI thereafter and now in news for wrong reasons) – 3 in 3 – 3 wickets
in 3 consecutive deliveries is a rare feat indeed. In One dayers there have been 49 occurrences in 4222 matches since the first
ever ODI match between Australia and England in 1971. Hat-tricks
are dominated by spinners. The first ODI
hat-trick was taken by Pakistan's Jalal-ud-Din against Australia in Hyderabad,
Sindh, in 1982. The most recent player to achieve this feat is Kuldeep Yadav of
India against West Indies in December 2019. The only bowler to have taken four
ODI hat-tricks is Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga. Five other bowlers— Pakistan's
Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas, New Zealand's Trent
Boult and India's Kuldeep Yadav—have taken two hat-tricks in the format. Four
players have taken a hat-trick on their ODI debuts: Bangladesh's Taijul Islam
against Zimbabwe in 2014, South Africa's Kagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in
2015, Sri Lanka's Wanidu Hasaranga against Zimbabwe in 2017, and Sri Lanka's
Shehan Madushanka against Bangladesh in 2018.
You may remember the hattrick taken by Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987
Reliance World Cup.
Heroin is an
illegal, highly addictive drug processed from morphine, a naturally occurring
substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It
is typically sold as a white or brownish powder that is "cut" with
sugars, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Pure heroin is a white powder with a
bitter taste that predominantly originates in South America and, to a lesser
extent, from Southeast Asia, and dominates U.S. markets east of the Mississippi
River. Sri Lanka fast bowler Shehan Madushanka has
been suspended from all forms of cricket with immediate effect after he was
arrested for alleged possession of illegal drugs, the country's cricket board
said.
There have been
occasions whence Cricketers have been penalized after failing dope test. Cricketers like other normal humans, develop
sore throat the take medicines including cough syrups, sometikes painkillers
too. Indian cricketers were caught
taking terbutaline in doping tests, and the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) slapped retrospective bans on them. When authorities nabbed Yusuf Pathan with
terbutaline in his urine sample in 2018, he confessed he had taken terbutaline
for a sore throat. The BCCI promptly handed him a back-dated ban. Sometime back,
news reports emerged that Prithvi Shaw had been caught committing the same
offence. He was also handed a back-dated
ban.
In 2008, Pakistan
pace bowler Mohammad Asif failed a doping test because he had a banned
substance during the tournament that year. Asif was also involved in a
drug-related controversy during the Champions Trophy 2006 for taking nandrolone
-- an androgen and anabolic steroid for which he was banned for a year but that
decision was later reversed. Australia's spin great Shane Warne was suspended for 12
months in 2003 prior to the start of the World Cup, after he tested positive
for a banned diuretic. Warne initially claimed that he took only one of what he
called a "fluid tablet" -- the prescription drug Moduretic -- on his
mother's suggestion, in an attempt to improve his appearance. Former
England player Ian Botham, was banned from the game in 1989, after being found
guilty of smoking cannabis. He was banned for 63 days for bringing the game
into disrepute.
In Jan 2018 Sri Lanka 221 (Tharanga 56, Chandimal 45,
Rubel 4-46) beat Bangladesh 142 (Mahmudullah 76, Madushanka 3-26) by 79 runs. Dushmantha Chameera blasted out the top
order, Akila Dananjaya squeezed through the middle overs, and debutant Shehan
Madushanka - playing only his seventh senior cricket match - closed out the
tournament with a hat-trick. Defending 222, the bowlers constricted the
Bangladesh chase, dismissed the opposition for 142, and propelled Sri Lanka to
their third victory on the trot and the tri-series title. There was some controversy of a potential blind spot in international
cricket's regulations. Chandika Hathurusingha was Bangladesh's coach only three
months earlier, and at that time became Sri Lankan coach. His knowledge of Bangladesh conditions, and
of the opposition, were alleged to have been
instrumental to the victory.
Now comes
the news that Sri Lanka fast bowler Shehan Madushanka has been suspended from
all forms of cricket with immediate effect after he was arrested for alleged
possession of illegal drugs, the country's cricket board said. The 25-year-old
took a hat-trick in his first one-day international against Bangladesh in Dhaka
in January, 2018 and played two more Twenty20 internationals on that tour
before being sidelined with injuries. He was caught with 2.7 grams of heroin by
police on Saturday and then remanded in custody until June 2, Sri Lanka police
said. Madushanka’s arrest was the first
time a contracted player was remanded over a drug charge. The cricketer and his
friend were arrested on May 23 for possessing heroin. The magistrate at
Kuliyapitiya in the north-western province ordered him to be remanded till June
2.
A decade and more
ago, England cricketer Chris Lewis was jailed for 13 years for smuggling liquid
cocaine valued at more than £140,000 into Britain hidden in fruit juice tins in
his cricket bag. His accomplice, Chad Kirnon, a 27-year-old former basketball
player born in Montserrat, was given the same sentence. Both men had denied the
charges. Chris Lewis, a Guyana-born
cricketer once tipped as the next Ian Botham, was stopped at Gatwick airport on
return from St Lucia. He was carrying a
man's handbag and a cricket bag full of cans of fruit and vegetable juice. The
five cans held a brownish liquid that smelt of chemicals and turned out to be
dissolved cocaine. Evaporating off the liquid would have yielded 3.75kg of pure
cocaine.Lewis made his final Test appearance at the Oval in August 1996 and his
last one-day appearance two years later against South Africa. Just over a
decade later, he then attempted to smuggle £140,000 worth of cocaine through
Gatwick airport. He was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in May 2009. It was
quite some fall from grace.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
27.5.2020.
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