Indian cricketers are not above the game and should agree to comply with norms of the anti- doping agency, say readers
Indian cricketers are not above the game and should agree to comply with norms of the anti- doping agency, say readersu00a0
Former ace sprinter Adille Sumariwala is absolutely correct that our cricketers should comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules. Wonder what our over rated and over paid cricketers think of themselves.
While sportsmen from 200 countries have signed the anti-doping pact, Indian cricketers do not want to comply. The BCCI always pampers them and bullies its way with the ICC because of their money power. When top sportsmen like Roger Federer, Mahesh Bhupati, Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal do not have a problem with WADA'S anti-doping method, why are our cricketers exceptional?
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Why do we in India resist conforming to certain standard established norms? Our cricketers feel they are greater than the game.
Top class sports persons the world over, have no issue with WADA. Our cricketers give security issues and invasion of privacy as the reasons for refusing to conform. And what takes the cake is that the BCCI backs them!
Hats off to Abhinav Bindra and Sports Minister M S Gill for speaking out. For once the ICC should insist on WADA norms to be enforced, and not consider the fact that the BCCI is a money-spinner.
Two days after rejecting WADA's anti-doping clause, India's top cricketers are getting increasingly isolated with star tennis players and sports medicine experts deploring their stance and saying there could not be separate rules for them.
After Sports Minister MS Gill opposed the BCCI stand on the clause, which makes it mandatory for sportspersons to make themselves available for out-of-competition testing, the cricketers found the heat intensifying with more sportspersons and administrators criticising them.
Cricket's critical code is eating away the decorum of the gentleman's game. The BCCI , which has now become the Board of Cricketing Controversies in India, is also taking the side of the players rather blindly. How long we can dominate ICC?
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