Rohit Sharma is most tested Indian cricketer for doping, Virat Kohli not tested for last two years – Reports

According to the latest data, it is revealed that there have not been enough doping tests conducted on Indian athletes in the last two years- 2021 and 2022. Notably, cricket was one sport which finally came under the jurisdiction of the government-run National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in 2019. Now the cricketers are being tested by NADA which means the Indian Cricket Board had to abide by the guidelines like other sports federations. Only 114 Tests have been conducted on cricketers in the last two years.

According to the reports by the Indian Express, obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005, a total of 5,961 tests were conducted in 2021 and 2022. Out of these, only 1.91 per cent of tests happened on cricketers. Athletics witnessed the highest number of tests, 1,717, among all sports in the country.

Which contracted cricketers have not been tested yet?

According to the reports, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma is the most tested Indian cricketer having the officials visiting him six times. Veteran batters Cheteshwar Pujara and Suryakumar Yadav have tested just once while Virat Kohli has not been tested for even a single time during the last two years. Notably, Kohli is not the only contracted men’s cricketer who was not tested.

25 men’s cricketers have been handed a central contract by the Indian cricket board. Out of them, 12 cricketers have not been tested during this period including the likes of Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Arshdeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson, Srikar Bharat, and Washington Sundar.

Talking about Women’s cricket, every contracted player from the Women’s team has been tested with the skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhanna being the most tested female cricketers with three Tests each. According to ABPLive, “The data does not suggest any kind of misconduct by Indian cricketers but it adds weightage to the claims made by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that India wasn’t doing enough to catch the wrong doers.”