{"id":1489,"date":"2022-03-24T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/south-africa-cricket-player-zubayr-hamza-positive-for-banned-drug-the-indian-express\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:09:15","slug":"south-africa-cricket-player-zubayr-hamza-positive-for-banned-drug-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/south-africa-cricket-player-zubayr-hamza-positive-for-banned-drug-the-indian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa cricket player Zubayr Hamza positive for banned drug &#8211; The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa batsman Zubayr Hamza has tested positive for the banned diuretic Furosemide, the country&#8217;s cricket federation said Wednesday. The 26-year-old Hamza is not disputing the positive test and has agreed to a &#8220;voluntary suspension&#8221; starting immediately while the case is investigated, Cricket South Africa said.<br \/>&#8220;Zubayr has been able to identify how the substance entered his system,&#8221; CSA said in a statement.  &#8220;The process to follow will entail presenting evidence that there was no fault or negligence, or no significant fault or negligence on the part of Zubayr.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IExpressCricket\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7803526 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=96,96 96w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7803526 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=96,96 96w, https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/03\/Express-Cricket-1.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>Furosemide is not a performance-enhancing drug but is banned because it can be used to mask other substances. Hamza tested positive following a doping test on Jan. 17, CSA said. He went on to play for South Africa in the first test in New Zealand last month.<br \/>Hamza has played six tests for the Proteas but hadn&#8217;t represented his country in the long format for two years before his appearance against New Zealand. 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The 26-year-old Hamza is not disputing the positive test and has agreed to a &#8220;voluntary suspension&#8221; starting immediately while the case is investigated, Cricket South Africa said.&#8220;Zubayr has been able to identify how the substance entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}