Smoking star cops fine

A BADMINTON player has been heavily fined for smoking during a tournament in the latest untoward incident to hit the sport in Malaysia.

Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin, 28, was fined 50 per cent of his monthly allowance for lighting up in his hotel room during the Thomas Cup in Bangkok, where Malaysia crashed out in the quarter-finals.

Malaysian players are forbidden from gambling or smoking. Two players were recently hit with decades-long bans for match-fixing and corruption.