BCCI Now Under NADA – Burning Issues

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BCCI BOWS DOWN FINALLY

Ending years of defiance, the BCCI agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency
All cricketers will now be tested by NADA

‘WHEREABOUTS CLAUSE

The Board’s primary concern was the contentious ‘Whereabouts Clause’ with regards to Out of Competition Testing, something that all star India players have been wary of as they considered it an invasion of their privacy.
The ‘Whereabouts Clause’ requires every athlete on Registered Testing Pool (RTP) to fill up a declaration form wherein he/she would have to mention three specific dates in a year when they are not competing but are available for NADA’s Dope Control Officer (DCO) for sample collection.

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If any athlete fails to appear on all the specified dates, it invites sanctions for breach of the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) Code.
The premier example of this is West Indies’ all-rounder Andre Russell who was banned for one year by the Jamaican Anti-Doping Agency.
(The ICC had become WADA’s signatory in 2006 even as it started conducting dope tests as early as 2002.)

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