UAE’s Asif Khan handed 15-month ban for using a banned substance
Asif Khan the UAE batter, has been banned for 15 months after admitting to having tested positive for a banned substance – “a metabolite of mesterolone” – in an out-of-competition test conducted in September 2025, the ICC said in a statement on Thursday. The statement said that Asif, 36, “had admitted the violation” of Article […]
UAE cricketer Asif Khan has been handed a 15-month ban for violating anti-doping regulations. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the decision on Thursday, stating that Khan tested positive for a banned substance during an out-of-competition test in September 2025. The banned substance is identified as a metabolite of mesterolone.
Khan, 36, admitted to the violation and accepted the period of ineligibility in a resolution agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency and the ICC. Consequently, he will not be eligible to play from September 8, 2025, until December 7, 2026. This means all results from September 8, 2025, until his provisional suspension on December 29, 2025, have been disqualified.
Khan, a former Pakistan Under-19 cricketer, made his debut for the UAE in March 2022 and played 38 ODIs and 56 T20Is between then and September 2025. The last three T20Is against India, Oman, and Pakistan in the T20 Asia Cup in 2025, which occurred after the ban period, will be removed from his record.
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