South Africa speedster Kagiso Rabada has served his provisional suspension after testing positive for a recreational drug.
The pacer is allowed to make a return to competitive cricket.
However, fresh details have now emerged regarding Rabada’s recreational drug use and how the Proteas quick managed to avoid an extended doping ban.
Rabada, who was marked for a comeback with the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, tested positive for cocaine, as per a report in South African newspaper Rapport.
The same report stated that Rabada provided a urine sample on January 21 after the SA20 match between MI Cape Town and Durban Super Giants at Kingsmead.
Once the results came in, the samples returned traces of benzoylecgonine (BZE), a metabolite of cocaine.
It was then that Rabada’s legal team came to his rescue as they managed to prove that the 29-year-old cricketer had used cocaine out of competition.
The report in Rapport further states that the concentration was less than 1,000 nanograms per millilitre, and hence, his legal team argued that the use of cocaine was not on the day of the drug test.
Hindustan Times