West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell (C front) sits at a desk during a meeting of an independent anti-doping tribunal at the Jamaica Conference Centre next to his lawyers Patrick Foster (L, rear, partially obscured) and Donovan Walker, in Kingston, Jamaica January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Gilbert Bellamy
KINGSTON (Reuters) - West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has appealed to have his one-year ban for a doping whereabouts rule violation dismissed.
Russell, a two-times Twenty20 World Cup winner, was revealed to have committed the violation a year ago after registering three filing failures in 2015. That constituted a failed drugs test under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.
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