West Indies batter John Campbell hit with four-year anti-doping ban

The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission have accused the 29-year-old of failing to provide a blood sample when requested in April

John Campbell, the West Indies opening batter, has been banned for four years after committing an anti-doping rule violation.

The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), in an 18-page decision seen by news agency Reuters, charged him with evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection.

Campbell failed to provide a blood sample when requested at his Kingston home in April.

His ban is backdated to the date he was notified of the offence on May 10.

^{Campbell has played 20 Tests for West Indies (RANDY BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)}

Since his international debut in February 2019, Campbell has played 20 Tests, six one-day internationals and two T20Is for the Windies.

"The panel is persuaded to a comfortable degree of satisfaction that the athlete committed an anti-doping rule violation, namely breach of JADCO rule 2.3," the decision read. 

"The panel does not find, on the evidence presented, that the athlete's anti-doping violation was not intentional.

"In the circumstances of this case, the athlete is ineligible for a period of four years."

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