Australian women’s fast bowler Megan Schutt has been banned for two matches for failing to meet guidelines on the use of prescription medication.<\/p>\n
Cricket Australia confirmed Schutt’s suspension in a release on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“The breach was a failure to adhere to requirements under the Sports Science and Sports Medicine guidelines with regard to prescription medication,” Cricket Australia said.<\/p>\n
“This relates to a single incidence which occurred while out of competition and was not for performance-enhancing purposes.”<\/p>\n
The two-match ban applies to all international and domestic cricket.<\/p>\n
Schutt starred in the recent three-match ODI series against Bangladesh. She had series figures of 10-71.<\/p>\n
She has not played in a three-match T20 international series against New Zealand, which wraps up tonight at North Sydney.<\/p>\n
Schutt released a statement acknowledging the breach and accepting the penalty.<\/p>\n
“I fully accept the penalty handed down and apologise for failing to meet the standards expected of me,” Schutt said in her statement.<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry for the attention this has caused and appreciate the support I’ve received.<\/p>\n
“While this occurred out of competition and was not performance related, I understand that I am responsible for following the Sports Science and Sports Medicine Guidelines, which players receive regular education on, and I should have adhered to these guidelines.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cricket Australia said it would continue to provide “appropriate support” to Schutt and to reinforce standards and responsibilities expected of all involved in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian women’s fast bowler Megan Schutt has been banned for two matches for failing to meet guidelines on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,740,55392,61204,5008,244268,225539,588,85,26605,390398],"class_list":["post-936684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricketer","tag-failure","tag-guidelines","tag-megan-schutt","tag-prescription-medication","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-suspension","tag-two-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}