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.
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.
"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.
The player's blood test report is expected in the next couple of days.
"Those who know me, including my team-mates, know that I have never touched Champagne after victories. It's a big thing."
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.
"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.
"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.
"The police said there will be checking and those who are clean, they will let them go."
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
