Melnbourne, Sept 03: Shane Warne has lashed out at the Cricket Australia (CA) describing their decision to stop him from training during his one-year doping ban as farcical. The disgraced leg-spinner is in England with his family away from the heat generated by a series of sexual accusations from women.
But today he reopened controversy over his drug sanction when he sounded off about the issue of training while serving the ban.
"I'm not allowed to attend any official training with anyone at any level," Warne wrote in a column today for the Herald-Sun here.
"The whole situation has become a farce, but that's unfortunately the decision."
"They are not only penalising the charity that I could be playing for, but also penalising the younger players I have been helping, such as Cameron White, a young leggie I know I can help."
CA was told by the government-funded Australian Sports Commission (ASC) that it was unacceptable for Warne to train while serving his 12-month ban for taking a banned diuretic, detected in a doping test prior to the World Cup in South Africa that Australia won without him.
Under CA's anti-doping policy, the training ban covers national, state and even club training. Bureau Report