WADA

According to an article on cricinfo on the ongoing fuss on WADA, one of the 11 on the list of Indian players to be tested randomly is Sachin Tendulkar. The list is called IRTP. There are 2 ladies, there are few lesser mortals like Munaf, Irfan on the list. Barring this 4 the other ones in the list are high profile cricketers. Sehwag, Dhoni, Harbhajan, Yuvraj, Gambhir and Zaheer Khan – the only cricketers in India who play all 3 formats consistently and form the backbone of this highly successful Indian team. Imagine a situation that one of this cricketers is busy spending some quality time with their families or say dining in a restaurant or watching movie in a multiplex. They come out and WADA intercepts them and asks for a Test. What would be the reaction ? The situation would be very embarrassing and downgrading for the cricketers.

And can we imagine this players taking drugs? I mean is this insane ? Declare your whereabouts and be ready for Test. Sachin Tendulkar is tested for drugs. How disgusting this would look in the news. It would be a humiliation to the great man. Or imagine somebody saying drugs being the reason behind success of Sehwag in Tests. How disgusting would that be? 3 breaches for failing the test and the player would be banned. What the hell. Imagine this situation, if a player like MS fails to go for the test and gets banned. And when the known and proven drugaddicts like Asif and Shoaib can play international cricket without even getting banned for what they did, how shameful would it look for the players with clean image. Banned for failing to appear the drugs test.

Sorry but WADA is not needed in CRICKET. Since 130 years the game has gone on with an exception of few peddlers and addicts, but mostly it has been drugs free and I see no reason why doping tests should be a part of cricket NOW. Inspect the cricketers who are having a past with the drugs who are making a return to the cricket on behest of some mad cricket admins. Why target people who wont even bother to go drugs way when they can perform miraculously without getting into drugs trap. Why doesn’t WADA force PCB to impose a ban on Mohd Asif who has been caught with drugs 2 times in 2 years. Or for that matter why is Shoaib Akhtar even playing cricket in any form? When Warne was banned for one year and Australia didn’t give two hoots to him returning to ODIs, then who are Asifs and Akhtars? What would WADA do on them? Why didn’t they make a strong case against this players? Can you imagine a Tendulkar or a Sehwag or a Dhoni going for performance enhancing medicines or drugs? The one who imagines so or thinks it could be a reality need to go have a brain check.

WADA hume maaf karo, aage badho. Chutte paise nahi hai.