BCCI Supports Indian Players on WADA Anti-Doping Contract

 

 

 

The BCCI has backed the Indian cricketers on their security concerns in the anti-doping signing with the World Anti Doping Association, which has got into a tie-up with the apex cricket body, ICC.
The Indian cricketers had refused to sign the contract earlier, before the deadline of 31st July because of a contentious clause that meant that they had to declare their location for one hour over the next three months. The Indian cricketers had deemed this clause as the one which encroached on their privacy.

The BCCI had a meeting with the ICC officials, along with the presence of some of the Indian cricketers like M.S.Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh but there was no solution found for the deadlock. The BCCI, on their part, agreed that anti-doping measures were very much a need of the hour, but they also said that they would back the players since they agreed with the fact that it would mean that the security of its players would be under threat.

The BCCI then, is said to have come up with a solution of its own, which they would suggest to the ICC. This solution talks about the ICC cutting off ties with WADA and forming their own regulations regarding doping and dope-testing.