Sporting Digest: Snooker

CHRIS SCANLON, the world No 111, has failed a drug test carried out by the sports governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. He was fined was fined pounds 195 and had 400 ranking points docked after a disciplinary inquiry heard that traces of cannabis were found in his urine.

DAVID McDONNELL earned a pounds 5,000 bonus by making a maximum 147 break in the fourth round of the British Open qualifying competition in Blackpool yesterday.