Indian cricketers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shafali Verma have received notifications from the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) due to a "whereabouts failure" concerning their dope testing requirements. Verma and Jaiswal are members of the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) of NADA. Athletes in this group must give precise information about where they are located as well as a daily window of one hour during which they are available for testing.
Shafali Verma was allegedly unavailable when Dope Control Officers (DCOs) visited to take a sample on November 7, 2025, according to several accounts, including one published in the news agency PTI. On December 17, 2025, Yashasvi Jaiswal was apparently missing from his assigned location.In February 2026, NADA asked the players for answers, but neither of them responded. As a result, the agency formally documented a "missed test" for both cricket players.
These shortcomings have been duly reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Now, the athletes have one last seven days to present a good reason for their absence.
For out-of-competition drug testing, athletes in NADA's Registered Testing Pool are need to specify a time and place. Under anti-doping laws, it is formally recorded as a "missed test" if a Doping Control Officer (DCO) shows up within this pre-arranged time and the athlete is not present.

A reliable source told PTI that "notices have been issued to the concerned athletes, and the same has been intimated to the national federation (the BCCI) and the ICC," despite NADA declining to comment due to procedure secrecy.Yes, NADA has informed us of the tests that were missed. We'll ask them how it happened and take the appropriate action to ensure that it doesn't happen again.In reference to cricket's return in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games roster, the BCCI source told PTI, "Cricket is back in the Olympics and we need to adhere to all the protocols so that everything goes on smoothly."

What Will Happen to Verma and Jaiswal Next?
Repeated failures could have serious repercussions under anti-doping legislation. An athlete is in violation of anti-doping rules if they record three "whereabouts failures" (which covers both missed tests and filing failures) in a rolling 12-month period.
The athlete may be suspended from the sport for up to two years if a violation is proven and they are unable to demonstrate their innocence.
Even though this is just Jaiswal and Verma's first attack, it is crucial that they stay out of trouble moving ahead.
Indian batsman Prithvi Shaw received a backdated 8-month punishment from NADA in 2019 after the BCCI claimed he had inadvertently ingested a banned chemical present in cough medication.Terbutaline, a prohibited substance, was discovered in Shaw's blood test following the collection of his urine sample during the 2019 Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 campaign.