National Anti-Doping Agency 'NADA' has released the sample data of dope test in the first five months of the year 2023. According to these figures, India's star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja gave samples for dope test three times between January and May this year, making him the most-tested cricketer during this period.

A total of 55 cricketers were tested for dope in the first five months of this year, of which more than half the samples were taken 'out of competition'. Players male and female players who gave dope test gave a total of 58 samples. This year the number of samples from cricketers is expected to be much higher than the last two years. As per the data, NADA had collected 54 and 60 samples from cricketers in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

India captain Rohit Sharma and star batsman Virat Kohli were not tested during the first five months of 2023. Hardik Pandya, who has been leading India's T20 team for a while, underwent a dope test once in April. This Test was also dropped from the match. As per the NADA data for two years, in 2021 and 2022, Rohit was the cricketer who gave the most dope tests with three samples each.

Kohli was not tested in 2021 and 2022 as well. About 20 samples in 2022 were of female cricketers. In the first five months of this year, only two women cricketers, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, were tested once each. Urine samples were collected outside the match in Mumbai on 12 January.

Around 20 samples were taken in the competition, most of them likely during the Indian Premier League. Seven of the 58 were blood samples, all the rest were urine. All three of Jadeja's samples were of urine and were taken out of competition on February 19, March 26 and April 26.

T Natarajan had to give two samples on 27 April. One was of urine and one of blood. Blood tests allow the detection of additional substances that in some cases cannot be detected in the urine. Additionally, blood samples allow the use of longitudinal data collection, often referred to as an athlete's biological passport.

Longitudinal data collection monitors certain biomarkers over time to detect the use of performance-enhancing substances and/or methods.

Other prominent Indian cricketers who underwent dope test from January to May this year include Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Mohammed Siraj, Deepak Chahar, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ambati Rayudu. , Piyush Chawla and Manish Pandey.

Some of the overseas star players who have undergone dope test are David Wiese, David Miller, Cameron Green, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, David Warner, Rashid Khan, David Willey, Trent Boult, Marcus Stoinis, Mark Wood, Adam Zampa, Liam Livingstone and Jofra Archer, Sam Karan were included.

All tests of foreign players were done in April (during IPL season), most of them had urine samples but some provided blood samples as well.

Prominent sportspersons from other sports to undergo dope testing during these five months include Olympic medalist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth, wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, hockey players Harmanpreet Singh, PR Sreejesh and Savita. Punia is included.

The overall NADA list runs into more than 60 pages and the number of samples may exceed 1500.

Bajrang and Vinesh had led a sit-in protest earlier this year accusing outgoing wrestling federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing some women wrestlers. Both of them had given two urine samples and one blood sample on February 20 and March 19. All these were taken out of competition in Sonipat.

Lovlina gave urine and blood samples on two occasions on March 19 and May 7. Both were taken out of the competition. Track and field athletes were the most tested, with nearly 500 samples, followed by weightlifting (nearly 200), boxing (more than 100), shooting and wrestling (more than 70 each), and football and hockey with more than 50 players each. Tested.