Opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad is the player who tested positive for doping last month, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Tuesday (July 10). Shehzad was tested during the Pakistan Cup, the country’s domestic List A tournament, in April.

PCB had announced that a player was tested positive for a banned substance, on June 20. However, under ICC rule, PCB couldn’t name the player or chargesheet him until the anti-dope agency of the government confirmed the chemical reports.

Pakistan government’s anti-dope agency review board wanted to be very careful and double check before accusing a senior player and hence it asked an Indian lab to re-check tests.

The 26-year-old has been charged and provisionally suspended by the PCB. He has until July 27 to respond to the charges and he has to decide if he wants to give a B sample test within July 18.

Shehzad could now face a ban of up to four years from cricket. He last represented his country in a T20I series against Scotland last month.

Pakistan spinner Raza Hasan also failed a doping test in 2015 and received a two-year-long ban. The likes of Yasir Shah and Abdur Rehman have also attracted temporary bans for doping in recent times.