FILE PHOTO: Cricket - India Nets - Ageas Bowl, West End, Britain - August 28, 2018 India's Prithvi Shaw with team mates during nets Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs/File Photo
(Reuters) - India batsman Prithvi Shaw has been handed a back-dated eight-month suspension for a doping violation after ingesting a prohibited substance Terbutaline, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.
The BCCI said Shaw, who made his test debut last year, admitted to the Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) but the 19-year-old asserted that it was 'inadvertent', ingesting the substance when he had used an over-the-counter cough syrup.
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