Several Indian stars like Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav etc, have been added as part of the National Anti-Doping Agency NADA’s testing pool for 2025.
A total of 14 players including three from the women’s category have been included in the roster.
In the men’s team, Suryakumar Yadav along with players from across all three formats like Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma have bee added.
Meanwhile Shafali Verma, Renuka Singh Thakur and Deepti Sharma are those from the women’s team who have been included.
The athletes that are part of testing pool would have to disclose information regarding their whereabout to NADA through which an effective manner of sample collection can be conducted when out of the competition.
The information includes athelet’s residential address, email address, phone number, and address for their overnight accommodation. The players would also have to allott 1 hour of their time for tests and failure to completed the due tests.
Additionalyy missing out on either missed tests or filing failures amounting to three instances in any combination would result in an anti-doping rule violation.
In 2020, players like Jadeja, Pujara, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma had been part of the RTP and had been issued whereabouts notices by NADA.
The NADA director had revealed that the BCCI cited the reasons behind the violation as a ‘password glitch’ with regard to their software.
All the Indian cricketers that have been added to the RTP are international stars in their own right.
Suryakumar Yadav along with Arshdeep Singh Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma are with the national team for the five match T20I series of England’s tour of India 2025 which begins on January 22 in Kolkata, which serves as their preparations along the ODI series for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025.
