Why do cricketers want to chicken out of the anti-doping test?
All the athletes and cricketers around the world have agreed to World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) norms and the whereabouts clause. Then I don’t understand why the cricketers should have any problems about disclosing their whereabouts. Sometimes, we boxers are expected to give our dope tests at odd hours as well. We need to trust the World Anti-Doping Agency as they would be careful about vital details like the players location. If shooter Abhinav Bindra and former badminton player P Gopichand among many, don’t have any problems with the code and the ‘whereabouts’ clause, then why should some cricketers have qualms and security concerns if they had to reveal their location in advance? Vijender Singh, won a bronze medal in the 2008 Olympic in Beijing I too wouldn’t like to disclose my location I don’t know how practical this anti-doping code will be for our cricketers keeping in mind the kind of traveling they do and the security they have because of the threats they face. It’s not possib
