BCCI agreed on Monday with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to work along for the next six months on a trial basis.
The Supreme Court appointed CoA of the BCCI met with ICC chairman Shashank Manohar in Mumbai and agreed on this decision, a major climb down from its previous position of not adhering to the global anti-doping guidelines.
“It will be a six-month tripartite agreement between ICC, BCCI, and NADA wherein the samples of our registered pool of players will be going to the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) through NADA, unlike now when Sweden-based IDTM does the sample collection. If we are not convinced, we won’t renew the agreement”, a BCCI official told the PTI after the meeting.
Whereas the NADA Director General Navin Agarwal responded that he will only comment after receiving any written confirmation and they are not yet officially intimated.
The agency has clearly told ICC that the BCCI has to come under NADA’s ambit so that the world body remains compliant.
“We are trying to help the BCCI sort out the issue with WADA and NADA. We think that cricket should be there in the 2018 Olympics, but it’s not going to happen if we are not unified sport,” the ICC CEO David Richardson in February spoke about the need to get the differences sorted.
