Rohit Sharma examined 6 occasions for anti-doping in 2021-22: In essentially the most surprising revelation, the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) has alleged India of not conducting sufficient doping checks within the yr 2021-22 on the nation’s athletes. The stories additionally talked about that Indian captain Rohit Sharma was amongst essentially the most examined cricketers for the doping take a look at in the identical interval, whereas Virat Kohli was not examined as soon as through the interval.

As per the main points of the RTI, obtained by the Indian Categorical, the main points of the variety of dope checks carried out through the yr 2021-22 have been revealed.

In August 2019, cricket got here underneath the purview of the government-run anti-doping physique. Authorities representatives subsequently promised that “all cricketers can be examined by NADA” and that “the BCCI was no totally different from different” federations, placing an finish to years of defiance from the cricket board.

As per the info factors collected from the RTI, the Nationwide Anti-Doping Company (NADA) ran a complete of 5961 doping checks throughout the totally different streams of Indian athletes within the years 2021 and 2022. Nevertheless, solely a handful of these was finished on cricketers – 114. In the meantime, the utmost variety of testing was finished in athletics.

The stories paint an image whereby the Olympic athletes of the nation stay underneath fixed scrutiny of going via the doping checks, however the probe stays to be lenient in terms of cricket, which is essentially the most watched sport within the nation.

Rohit Sharma examined 6 occasions – NADA Report

Amongst Indian cricketers, Indian captain Rohit Sharma was examined essentially the most time within the specified time interval – 6 occasions. He was examined in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chennai and the UAE. Nevertheless, no checks have been run on former Indian captain Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya.

Notably, the Nationwide Anti-Doping Company (NADA) examined 12 out of 25 centrally contracted BCCI male cricketers not even as soon as throughout 2021-22, which is surprising. The listing contains the likes of Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson and Srikar Bharat.

Seven Indian cricketers – Rishabh Pant, Cheteshwar Pujara and Suryakumar Yadav amongst others have been examined as soon as through the interval.

Speaking concerning the ladies’s cricket. Each participant was sure to go for the doping examination at the least as soon as with the stalwarts like Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur present process the anti-doping take a look at thrice apiece.

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