The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has updated the Registered Test Pool (RTP) 2025, which includes big names from the Indian cricket team. Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill are among the elite Indian cricketers listed under NADA’s anti-doping programme.

The National Anti-Doping Agency’s Doping Control Officers (DCOs) will collect samples from selected players during the white-ball series between India and England. The goal of the program is to promote transparency and fairness in sport by regularly checking athletes to ensure they comply with anti-doping rules.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been informed of the measures, which will come into effect immediately and the DCO is expected to visit multiple venues during the series. India will take on England in a five-match T20I series, with the first match taking place in Kolkata on Wednesday, January 22.

Cricketers like Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah are part of anti-doping agency testing pool

According to the Times of India, there are 14 male and female cricketers and athletes from other sports in the registered Test pool. Hardik Pandya, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Arshdeep Singh, Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma are also included in the updated list.

Three women cricketers – opener Shafali Verma, all-rounder Deepti Sharma and pacer Renuka Singh Thakur – have also been included in the RTP. NADA is committed to strengthening its anti-doping efforts by onboarding some of India’s top cricketing talents.

First-time doping RTP includes Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul

The National Anti-Doping Agency launched a registered testing library for cricketers in 2019. Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma are in the list.

These players provided their “whereabouts” details for testing. However, in 2020, Pujara, Jadeja, Rahul, Mandhana and Sharma were cautioned after failing to submit their whereabouts due to technical issues, which the BCCI explained as glitches and complications arising from the COVID-19 lockdown.

Athletes need to provide whereabouts information

“Athletes in the RTP are required to provide whereabouts information, which Nada will use to locate them for an effective out-of-competition sample collection process,” the report states.

“Whereabouts” are specific information that athletes are required to provide for anti-doping purposes, including residential address, email, phone number and overnight address. Athletes must also provide 60 minutes per day for testing.

Prithvi Shaw failed a doping test in 2020 after testing positive for a banned substance (terbutaline). Shaw claimed he had inadvertently consumed it, but he faced suspension for the violation.

Other cricketers like Yusuf Pathan, Pradeep Sangwan and Anshula Rao were also suspended by BCCI for failing doping tests race.

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