The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has updated its Registered Testing Pool (RTP) for 2025, including prominent names from the Indian cricket team. Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill are among the elite Indian cricketers who have been shortlisted in NADA’s anti-doping programme.
The National Anti-Doping Agency’s Doping Control Officers (DCOs) will collect samples from selected players during the India-England match. The aim of this program is to promote transparency and fairness in sport by regularly checking athletes to ensure they are following anti-doping rules.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been informed of these measures, which will come into effect immediately, and additional monitoring officials are expected to visit multiple venues during the series. India will play England in a five-match T20I series with the first match taking place in Kolkata on Wednesday, January 22.
Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah among cricketers Part of Anti-Doping Agency’s testing panel
According to a Times of India report, a total of 14 male and female cricketers, along with athletes from other disciplines, have been included in the registered testing pool. Hardik Pandya, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Arshdeep Singh, Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma are also part of the updated list.
Three women cricketers – champion Shafali Verma, all-rounder Deepti Sharma and player Renuka Singh Thakur – have also been included in the RTP. NADA is committed to strengthening its anti-doping efforts by bringing in some of India’s best cricketing talent.
First RTP for doping included Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul
The National Anti-Doping Agency has introduced a registered pool for testing cricketers in 2019. Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma were part of the list.
These players provided information about their “residence” for testing. However, in 2020, Pujara, Jadeja, Rahul, Mandhana and Sharma were dismissed with warnings after failing to report their whereabouts due to a technical issue, which the BCCI explained was a bug and complications due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
Athletes must provide information about their residence
“Athletes who are part of the RTP are required to provide whereabouts information which will then be used by Nada to locate them for an efficient out-of-competition sample collection process,” the report said.
“Whereabouts” is the specific information, including their home address, email and phone number, as well as their overnight address, that athletes are required to provide for anti-doping purposes. Athletes must also provide a 60-minute window each day during which they are available for testing.
Prithvi Shaw failed a doping test in 2020 after testing positive for a banned substance (terbutaline). Shaw claimed he consumed it unintentionally, but faced suspension for the offense.
Other cricketers such as Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan and Anshula Rao have also been suspended by the BCCI for failing doping tests.
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