NADA Test: Ravindra Jadeja most tested Indian cricketer so far in 2023, 58 samples collected in first 5 months | Cricket News – Act Daily News

NEW DELHI: Star India Ravindra Jadeja underwent doping checks on three separate events between January and May this yr. This frequency of testing has established him as probably the most scrutinised cricketer throughout this era, as revealed by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).

In whole, 55 cricket gamers, each female and male, have been subjected to doping checks in the course of the preliminary 5 months of this yr.

This encompasses a complete of 58 samples.
A considerable majority of those samples have been collected throughout situations categorised as ‘Out Of Competition’ (OOC), as indicated by a lately revealed roster on the NADA’s official web site.
This development implies that the amount of samples amassed from cricket gamers within the present yr is projected to surpass the figures of the previous two years. As per the disclosed information, the NADA had procured 54 and 60 samples respectively from cricket gamers within the years 2021 and 2022.

India captain Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli weren’t examined in the course of the first 5 months of 2023.
Hardik Pandya, who has been main the India T20 International facet for a while, underwent one take a look at — ‘Out Of Competition’ (OOC) urine pattern in April.

In 2021 and 2022, Rohit was probably the most examined cricketer with three samples every, in line with NADA information of the 2 years.
Kohli was not examined in 2021 and 2022 additionally. Around 20 samples in 2022 have been from ladies cricketers.
But, within the first 5 months of this yr, solely two ladies cricketers — India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her deputy Smriti Mandhana — have been examined as soon as every — out-of-competition urine samples collected in Mumbai on January 12.
Around 20 samples have been taken in competitors, most of them probably in the course of the Indian Premier League.
There have been seven blood samples out of the 58, all of the remaining being urine.
All of Jadeja’s three samples have been of urine, and brought out of competitors on February 19, March 26 and April 26.
Thangarasu Natarajan underwent two checks, one urine and one blood — each on April 27.
Blood testing permits detection of extra substances that in some instances might not be capable to be present in urine.
Additionally, blood samples permit the usage of longitudinal information assortment, usually referred to as the athlete organic passport.
Longitudinal information assortment displays sure bio markers over time to detect the usage of performance-enhancing substances and/or strategies.
Other outstanding Indian cricketers who underwent dope checks from January to May this yr embody Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Mohammed Siraj, Deepak Chahar, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ambati Rayudu, Piyush Chawla and Manish Pandey.
Some of the star gamers from overseas who underwent dope checks have been David Wiese, David Miller, Cameron Green, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, David Warner, Rashid Khan, David Willey, Trent Boult, Marcus Stoinis, Mark Wood, Adam Zampa, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone and Jofra Archer.
All the checks on international gamers have been carried out in April (throughout IPL season), most of them urine samples however a number of offered blood samples additionally.
Prominent gamers from different sports activities who underwent dope checks throughout these 5 months embody Olympic medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth, wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, hockey gamers Harmanpreet Singh, PR Sreejesh and Savita Punia, amongst others.
The total NADA listing runs into greater than 60 pages and the variety of samples might be greater than 1500.
Bajrang and Vinesh, who led a sit-in protest earlier this yr, alleging sexual harassment of some feminine grapplers by outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, gave two urine samples — on February 20 and March 19 — and one blood pattern on March 19, all of them out of competitions and in Sonipat.
Lovlina gave urine and blood samples on two events — March 19 and May 7, all out of competitors.
Track and athletes have been examined probably the most with round 500 samples, adopted by weightlifting (round 200), boxing (greater than 100), capturing and wrestling (greater than 70 every), and soccer and hockey (greater than 50 every).
(With PTI Inputs)