Why Indian Cricket Players resist to sign WADA?

What is WADA?
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the international independent organization created in 1999 to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms.
Composed and funded equally by the sports movement and governments of the world, WADA coordinated the development and implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code, the document harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries.
WADA works towards a vision of the world that values and fosters a doping-free culture in sport.

Why is it important to combat doping in sport?
Doping is one of the most important and difficult problems confronting sports today.
Doping threatens athlete health. In most cases, the substances/methods abused in doping have not been tested or approved for use by healthy individuals. Often, the substances/methods used for doping have not yet been determined safe enough for therapeutic use. Even more alarming is the abuse of counterfeit or designer drugs- drugs that are not regulated for safety. All of these factors lead to serious health risks to athletes who engage in doping.
Doping also threatens the integrity of sport. Doping, the use of artificial enhancements to gain an advantage over others in competition, is cheating and is fundamentally contrary to the spirit of sport. Further, doping robs athletes who play by the rules of their right to competition that is safe and fair.
Doping affects not just top athletes, but youths influenced by what the stars do. It is a growing problem of public health proportion that cannot be ignored by any country or any sport.
Only by taking a concerted and comprehensive approach to fight against doping in sport is it possible to protect the integrity of sport and the health of athletes and youth worldwide.


Why is worldwide coordination of the fight against doping in sport necessary?
A uniform approach to ridding sport of doping, coordinated on a global scale through a partnership between Sport and Government, is the only effective strategy to help stem the scourge of doping, protect the health of athletes, and preserve the spirit of sport. This was the consensus of Sport and Government in 1999, in response to the 1998 Tour de France scandal that rocked the world of sports. It was then that WADA was established as the international body to harmonize and marshal the global fight against doping in sport.
Prior to the creation of WADA and the globally harmonized fight against doping in sport, it was extremely difficult to know just what substances and procedures were being used and to what degree. The financial resources necessary to conduct research and testing were extremely scarce and inadequate. In some cases, the desire for continued "progress" in a sport went unchecked. Similarly, the "underground" and clandestine use of drugs and methods proliferated without threat of serious penalty. Certain organizations actually participated in doping, if not tacitly approving of it. The perception that a positive result constituted a "failure" or an embarrassment to the sport persisted and may have even influenced decisions. Even more frightening was that some governments instituted doping programs so that their own athletes became mere pawns in campaigns for national sports glory.
Prior to the creation of WADA, it was primarily the sports organizations which led the fight against doping within their own respective realms of influence. The perception then was that-with the propagation of conflicting definitions, policies and sanctions-too many mixed messages were being sent. The somewhat isolated and disjointed efforts to combat doping, no matter how well-intentioned, did little to stem the scourge of doping.

Now coming to the main topic, "Why Indian Cricket Players resist to sign WADA?
There is a clause in WADA, which demands the players to inform about their whereabouts when they are not playing cricket and their availability for an hour. This is required to perform a random doping test as per the WADA act. But Indian players are not willing to sign this rule.
The two reasons our cricketers give for not signing-up with WADA - Intrusion of privacy and security
Intrusion of privacy
When me or you sneak into a cricketers property or hack in to his bank account that might be considered intrusion of privacy. Imagine an enforcement agency like the Income Tax department wanting to do the same.
Is it intrusion of privacy ?
I think not, there is a difference between an enforcement agency and a stalker. WADA is a world body that culls dope out of sports. So they are like any enforcement agency you could think of, hence what they do is nothing but enforcement of a code of conduct and not invading a cricketers privacy when he's having a good time.
I fear for my life, what will happen to my security ?
WADA is a body recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and many governments all around the world. So I can't imagine them trying to sell their database to someone sitting in the Tora Bora mountains nor would they have a hotline with them. There are some stringent confidentiality clause / agreement that governs the WADA officials conduct.

Let's quickly see why WADA came into existance the first place ?
Seoul Olympics 1988, 100m sprint
One classic shot any sports buff would remember vividly is that of Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter crossing the line with one arm up in the air and looking to his left to see where his nemesis Carl Lewis is placed. He broke the world record, for the second time in a matter of months.
His celebrations were shortlived, 3 days to be precise when newspapers announced that he has been caught doping. The world became familiar with anabolic steroids, performance enhancing drugs & in this case something called Stanozolol. That was when the sporting world woke up to this menace of doping.
WADA was formed a year later, in 1999 with some initial funding from the IOC. These days IOC along with many govenments world over fund the WADA. The first WADA anti-doping code was implemented in 2004, just before the Athens Olympics.
Interestingly, there is a known name in the WADA Athlete committee, Mr Anil Kumble from India. So why don’t our demigods speak to him and know more about WADA and the whereabouts clause.
See what Abinav Bindra has to say about the whereabouts clause. So it is not as tough or as intrusive as our cricketers make it to be. It just requires some sportsmanship, like how Bindra explains the process.
"I hate pissing into a bottle".In the 90s when anti-doping regulations were introduced into sports, this is what John McEnroe remarked.
May be, he didn't have to, but his successors do. Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal might have reservations about the whereabouts clause but they still are signatories to the WADA regulation and get tested randomly.

Most of the top sportsmen and women are, aren't our cricketers sportsmen ?