The International Cricket Council has tabled an anti-doping code it says satisfies WADA's 'whereabouts' rule but will not force many elite cricketers to provide information on their location away from the game.
According to an excerpt of a draft code member nations' 11 top-ranked one-day international cricketers on a "National Player Pool" would need to provide only "cricket whereabouts information" rather than their personal whereabouts at all times.
The more rigorous application of the rule - including compelling athletes to nominate their whereabouts for an hour every day over a quarterly period - would only apply to cricketers placed on a registered testing pool.
These would be confined to players with past doping offences, those unfit or with injuries that sideline them for at least three months and those demoted from the National Player Pool for whereabouts-related violations.
