Eire batter Rebecca Stokell admits to breaching ICC’s anti-doping code


Eire batter Rebecca Stokell has admitted to breaching the ICC’s anti-doping violation after a pattern she supplied throughout this yr’s T20 World Cup returned an “antagonistic discovering for a specified substance.”

The ICC stated in a launch on Monday that it had notified Stokell of the alleged violation which she then admitted to and entered voluntary suspension.

“Following the receipt of the notification, Stokell has admitted the violation, which arose from her use of prescription medicine, and accepted a voluntary suspension efficient 23 October 2026 pending the end result of the disciplinary course of,” the ICC assertion stated.

Cricket Eire acknowledged that it was an “inadvertent breach of the reporting necessities” and the substance concerned was non-performance enhancing.

“I totally settle for my mistake and have voluntarily entered right into a interval of suspension forward of the findings being returned,” Stokell stated. “Whereas this was not efficiency associated in any approach, I perceive that I’m liable for following the anti-doping tips and I hope that I might be again taking part in for Eire as quickly as attainable.”

Stokell, 26, has performed 29 ODIs and 80 T20Is since making her worldwide debut in 2017. The ICC stated her pattern was taken from an in-competition check on June 23, 2026. That day, Stokell featured in Eire’s T20 World Cup conflict in opposition to Sri Lanka in Bristol, the place Eire went down by 9 wickets. Eire completed with only one victory from their 5 video games after they surprised West Indies by six wickets of their final league sport.

Stokell performed all 5 video games however managed simply 40 runs at a median of 10 within the match with a excessive rating of 16*.

Her final project was the ODI sequence in England in September, which the hosts claimed 3-0. Stokell has scored 468 runs in ODIs and 908 in T20Is, with three and one half-centuries respectively.

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