India and Pune Warriors player Rahul Sharma on Monday said he will stop playing cricket if his blood test returns positive for drugs after the leg-spinner was detained from a rave party in Mumbai, says a report in Indian Express.<\/p>\n
Sharma along with Pune Warriors team-mate Wayne Parnell were among the 94 people detained by the police after a raid at Hotel Oakwoods in Juhu, Mumbai.<\/p>\n
“I know I am innocent, if the reports (of blood tests) are positive, I will leave cricket,” Sharma said today, adding that the team management has full trust in them.<\/p>\n
The player’s blood test report is expected in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n
“Those who know me, including my team-mates, know that I have never touched Champagne after victories. It’s a big thing.”<\/p>\n
He refuted the allegation that he was present at a rave party at a Mumbai hotel, claiming that he had gone there to attend a birthday celebration.<\/p>\n
“I was invited to a birthday party. Wayne Parnell was with me, I did not know that there was a rave party at the hotel,” said the spinner.<\/p>\n
“We reached there at around 7 in the evening and all of a sudden within half an hour of us reaching there, the police raid happened. We didn’t know what was happening, I asked the police officers and they told me that a raid was in progress,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The police said there will be checking and those who are clean, they will let them go.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile South African cricketer Wayne Parnell claimed that he and fellow Pune Warriors team-mate Rahul Sharma were innocent and that they were “at the wrong place at the wrong time” after the duo were detained during a raid on a rave party in suburban Juhu here, says newspaper reports.<\/p>\n
Although Parnell admitted that both the players were present in the party at the Oakwood Premier Hotel, they said they were unaware of any drugs being supplied there last night.<\/p>\n
“Myself and Rahul were invited to someone’s birthday. We got there about 5:00pm in the afternoon and by 7:00 O’clock the police officers were there. Obviously, once we were inside we got caught indoors,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It is unfortunate we were there. But at the end of the day, it was just a simple case of being at a wrong place at the wrong time,” Parnell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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