The Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel is to hear final submissions from both legal teams today to complete proceedings into the allegation that West Indies cricketer Andre Russell violated a whereabouts clause.

Today’s sitting is scheduled to commence 10:00 am at Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.

The panel, comprising Chairman Hugh Faulkner, Dr Marjorie Vassell and former national cricketer Dixeth Palmer, is then expected to decide on Russell’s fate. The timeline for a decision is not yet known.

Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), represented by attorney-at-law Lackston Robinson, is accusing Russell of failing to file his whereabouts on three occasions during a 12-month period. The alleged filing failures are for January 1, 2015, July 1, 2015, and July 25, 2015.

Queen’s Counsel Patrick Foster, who is the lead attorney representing the 28-year-old Jamaican Russell, has sought to dispel allegations of negligence on the cricketer’s part. Additionally, Foster questioned the basis of the last two purported filing failures, which both fall in the July to September quarter.

Under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations three whereabouts filing failures amount to a failed test, which may attract a ban of up to 24 months. WADA rules require that athletes make their whereabouts known to local anti-doping agencies to facilitate testing.

Russell, a prominent international cricketer, has represented Twenty20 (T20) cricket franchises in India, Bangladesh, Australia, and England.

He was integral to the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 Cricket World Cup in India in April.

Russell also starred as Jamaica Tallawahs lifted the Caribbean Premier League T20 crown for a second time back in August.

— Sanjay Myers