Indian cricketers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shafali Verma issued NADA notice for missing dope tests
Indian cricketers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shafali Verma have been issued notices by the National Anti-Doping Agency for failing to provide samples during scheduled dope test collections, according to reports.
Both players are part of NADA’s Registered Testing Pool, which requires elite athletes to provide their daily whereabouts so dope control officers can conduct surprise sample collections.
According to reports, a dope control officer visited Jaiswal’s registered location on December 17 last year, while Verma was reportedly unavailable during a sample collection attempt on November 7.
NADA later sought explanations from both cricketers in February this year, but reportedly did not receive responses from either player.
Following the missed tests, the agency has formally recorded the first whereabouts failure against both players and informed the BCCI and the International Cricket Council about the development.
Jaiswal and Verma have now been given seven days to submit their explanations before any further action is considered.
Under anti-doping regulations, an athlete who accumulates three missed tests or whereabouts failures within a 12-month period can face an anti-doping violation charge, which may result in a suspension of up to two years.
Meanwhile, NADA has updated its Registered Testing Pool for the second quarter of 2026.
The revised list includes 348 athletes across multiple sports disciplines. In cricket, Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel have been added to the pool, replacing Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer.
The current men’s cricket RTP list includes Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Tilak Varma, Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel.
The women’s RTP list includes Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh Thakur
