Jamaican and West Indies batsman John Campbell will be eligible to return to competitive cricket in August 2024.

This, after his ban was reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport during a hearing on April 25th 2024.

Campbell was initially handed a four-year ban following a charge of violating anti-doping rules by evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection.

The CAS reduced the ban to 22 months, effective from October 6th 2022.

Its ruling found that Campbell did not deliberately try to evade sample collection by doping control officers.

The decision has been welcomed by the West Indies Players’ Association, which recently protested the length of time taken for CAS to hand down its ruling after six postponements.

WIPA President and CEO, Wavell Hinds said, “We are happy for John, and we would like to express sincere gratitude to all those who assisted with getting us a resolution on the matter. Nevertheless, we are very dissatisfied with the numerous postponements, the prolonged wait for a verdict to be handed down by CAS, and the inefficiencies in the World Anti-Doping Agency process, and we welcome the resolution of such injustices in the very near future.”