WADA to make ICC non-compliant over BCCI'S refusal to go under NADA supervision
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After ICC failed to convince the BCCI to allow dope testing of its cricketers by anti-doping watchdog NADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to set in motion the process to make the ICC noncompliant to its revised 'Code' for signatories. The new code came into effect in April this year.
Earlier, the WADA had told ICC to convince BCCI till October 4 to make its cricketers available to the NADA for sample collection. However, ICC failed to adhere to the cut-off date after BCCI’s continuous protest against the same and now WADA has decided to act against ICC. WADA informed that their case will be referred to its independent 'Compliance Review Committee' (CRC), which is expected to meet in Lausanne early next year, reported Times of India.
"As per the process described in Wada's 'International Standard for Code Compliance by Signatories 2018', the case will now be referred to the independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC), which will discuss it at its first in-person meeting of 2019," wrote Maggie Durand, head of WADA's media communications.
While the meeting will happen early next year, WADA's Taskforce has already discussed the ICC case with the CRC and after the review of the matter by the CRC, the case will be referred to the WADA's Executive Committee, which can recommend the disaffiliation of the ICC as its member nation.
However, if that happens the development may hurt the ICC's ambitions to see cricket included in the future Olympics and Asian Games. If ICC gets disaffiliated by WADA in the future, they will have 21 days from the receipt of the notice from WADA to challenge the decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne.
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