Overview
- England’s Cricket Regulator announced the two-year suspension on Friday, backdating it to November 24, 2025, with eligibility ending on November 23, 2027.
- The positive result came from an in-competition test on September 25, 2025, during Essex’s match with Somerset at Chelmsford, with a WADA-accredited London lab detecting cocaine and its metabolite.
- Bracewell admitted using the drug after day one on September 24 and into the early hours of the next morning, in a case that follows a one-month cocaine ban he served in 2024.
- The sanction applies despite his December retirement and bars him from playing, coaching, or working in any role within WADA-governed cricket, and it also voids results recorded from the test date until his provisional suspension began.
- Essex said it supports the decision, will not be sanctioned, and will offer rehabilitation support to the player.