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bcciThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has given National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) proposal to bring Indian cricketers — both domestic and international — under the testing umbrella the cold shoulder, with a top board official even saying that they don’t recognise the body. NADA director general Rahul Bhatnagar told The Indian Express that he had sent two letters over the last four months to BCCI chief Shashank Manohar, but was yet to receive a reply. “We have written two letters to the BCCI, addressed to Shashank Manohar, where we have stated that we want to test players participating in domestic competitions of the BCCI, including the Ranji Trophy. The last letter was sent three weeks ago,


and we had approached them initially in the first quarter of this year,” said Bhatnagar. While Manohar is currently away in England for the Lord’s Test between India and England and couldn’t be contacted, BCCI chief administrator officer, Ratnakar Shetty, refused to comment on the issue. Ads by Google ‘Avoiding bias’ Another top BCCI official, not willing to be named, however, said that the BCCI was taking the help of a third party so as to avoid any accusations of bias that could result if a national body was in charge of testing their cricketers. “We don’t recognise NADA, so why should we allow them to test our players?” he asked. “At the moment we are concentrating on educating our players, we feel what is more important for cricketers is to understand the situation. The whole testing part is new for cricketers, so we will take more time on this. Involving NADA will be like you playing the judge and the lawyer at the same time,” the official said.

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