According to a Times of India report, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is in danger to be labelled as non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after the global crickets’ governing body has failed to convince the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to allow dope testing of their cricketers by the country’s National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).

According to WADA’s revised ‘Code’ for signatories that came into effect in this April, BCCI had to comply with NADA on the cut-off date 4 October 2018. At present, a private agency oversees the anti-doping norms of BCCI.

WADA has now claimed that the ICC’s case will be now referred to its independent ‘Compliance Review Committee’ (CRC) that is expected to meet in Lausanne early next year.

The head of WADA’s media communications, Maggie Durand wrote in an e-mail communication, “As per the process described in WADA’s ‘International Standard for Code Compliance by Signatories 2018’, the case will now be referred to the Independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC), which will discuss it at its first in-person meeting of 2018.”

It can be hit on ICC’s plans to enter in the future global international sports events, including Olympics, Asian Games etc. However, it will not hamper in the future ICC tournaments like ICC Test Championship, ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC World T20 etc.

Apart from the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and BCCI, all other ICC’s full member nations have complied with their respective national anti-doping agencies.

According to Cricketnext, a TOI source said, “Afghanistan is an exception because of reasons that are beyond the reach of their cricket board. In BCCI’s case, they want to be an exception because India’s NADA too is an exception given the global standards.”

If WADA disaffiliates ICC in the future, the global crickets’ governing body will have 21 days from the receipt of the notice from WADA to challenge that decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), in Lausanne.