To educate India's domestic cricketers about the ICC's WADA-compliant Anti-Doping Code, the Board of Control for Cricket in India will conduct an education programme over the next two months.
"The (ICC) Anti-Doping Code has to filter down to the domestic level and we are for the moment planning to conduct an education programme for domestic cricketers. We will think about all other things once we are through with this," said BCCI CAO Ratnakar Shetty on Tuesday.
"We will have to include the domestic coaches and physios also in the education progamme," he said.
Shetty was not prepared to talk on matters, including setting up of a medical panel or testing the samples taken from the players, insisting that the first step is to conduct the education programme at the domestic level.
"We plan to do it over the next two months," he said.
The Code has a controversial "whereabouts" clause, by which some top cricketers need to inform the dope-testing authorities about their whereabouts each day for three months in advance.
The concerned Indian cricketers had raised objections by insisting to the BCCI their security is under threat if they sign the clause and their privacy would also get infringed.
The Board accepted their view and informed the International Cricket Council that it is an unacceptable part of the Anti-Doping Code.
