Amidst IPL 2026, surprising news has come to light regarding Delhi Capitals captain Akshar Patel and Sunrisers Hyderabad vice-captain Abhishek Sharma. The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has taken a big decision regarding these two cricketers. It has been told in the report that both will have a dope test, and both the players will have to give information about their whereabouts. Actually, NADA has included Abhishek and Akshar in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP).
In the latest list of 348 players included in RTP, Abhishek Sharma and Akshar Patel have replaced Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer. All these players will have to inform the anti-doping agency about their whereabouts and will have to be available for testing at a fixed time daily. Failure to report your whereabouts three times is considered a doping violation.
Total 14 cricketers in NADA list
India’s Test and ODI team captain Shubhman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh and Tilak Verma are included in this list as before. Indian women’s cricket team’s all-rounders Deepti Sharma, Shefali Verma and Renuka Singh Thakur, who created history by winning the ODI World Cup last year, remain in this list. Overall, 14 cricketers have been included in this list of NADA.
Most of the players in this list of NADA are associated with athletics. Last time their number was 118 which has now increased to 134. These include prominent names like steeplechase athlete Avinash Sable, hurdler Jyoti Yaraji, decathlon player Tejaswin Shankar and sprint runner Animesh Kujur. Long jump contestants Shaili Singh and M Sreeshankar and shot put athlete Tajinderpal Singh Toor have also been included in this list. Archery experienced players Deepika Kumari, Rakesh Kumar and famous para archer Sheetal Devi are included in this list of NADA.
From hockey, Manpreet Singh, captain Harmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas and Hardik Singh as well as women’s team captain Salima Tete, Savita Poonia and Navneet Kaur are also part of this list. Eight players from badminton have been included in it, the prominent ones being PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and Gayatri Gopichand. 22 boxers are included in this list. These include world medalists Nikhat Zareen, Nishant Dev and Jasmine Lamboria as well as Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain. 31 players from wrestling have been included in this list. These include Olympic bronze medalist Aman Sehrawat.