BCCI has been providing ‘whereabouts’ details of cricketers to WADA since 2017

As the Indian cricket board is yet to come under the country’s National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), WADA had asked the ICC to ensure that the rift between BCCI and NADA is sorted out. The ICC had also asked the BCCI regarding the same during the recent ICC board meeting in Dubai where the BCCI representatives had notified the world body that they don’t trust NADA because of some recent goof-ups. There have been some reports that the BCCI also had an issue with WADA's ‘whereabouts’ clause.

However, a BCCI official has now revealed that the board has been uploading the ‘whereabouts’ details of the cricketers since the Champions Trophy in 2017 in WADA’s ADAMS. ADAMS stores athletes’ whereabouts, TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemptions), Test Planning and Results Management, Lab Results Module.

“We need to clear this misconception. Since 2017, we have been consistently uploading the whereabouts of our centrally contracted players on ADAMS. We never had any issue with whereabouts clause,” a BCCI official told PTI.

“A few of our players first entered WADA’s Registered Testing Pool (RTP) during 2015 ICC World Cup. Our issue is NADA’s handling of samples and how their Dope Control Officers (DCO) work. That is something we are not convinced about and we have told that to ICC also. We can propose a solution. BCCI can hire a set of chaperons, who will help in urine sample collection of players in presence of Dope Control Officers (DCO) of NADA and that will be directly sent to National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL).”

Swedish agency IDTM (International Doping Tests and Management) is currently carrying out the testing process by collecting the samples of the players and the testing is being done at NDTL which is accredited by the WADA.

“The BCCI has been regularly testing at least 25 top players keeping the World Cup in mind,” the official concluded.