Gabe Hamlin makes rugby league comeback after end of drugs ban

He played for Cronulla in a pre-season friendly today - five days after his two year anti-doping ban ended.

The Aussie prop helped the Sharks to a 36-28 win against St George Illawarra in an 'emerging player trial'.

It was his first game since being suspended in February 2019 while at Wigan for testing positive for cocaine.

He was later banned from all sports for two years by the UK Anti-Doping Agency, back-dated to the start of the suspension.

Hamlin, who had joined Wigan ahead of the 2018 season from Souths, had claimed cocaine was unknowingly passed from a kissing a woman he had met through an online dating app.

But UKAD didn't accept his account after expert Professor Kim Wolff, Head of the Drug Control Centre at King’s College London, said his account "does not stand up to scrutiny".