Why BCCI is going on backfoot

While drug abuse becoming an increasing threat to sport and cricket too is not clean today. To keep cricket clean needs a dope-testing protocol. There is one currently used across the world, by almost every sporting body, but not India's cricketers board. By mooting a doping code outside of WADA, the BCCI is effectively asking the ICC to take cricket out of the global sporting family. It's not really a request, as 70% of the money in world cricket comes from India. So it is not nonsensical but hugely irresponsible. BCCI should come forward to stop drug in wiseman sports. If cricket wants to be taken as a global sport and move beyond its identity as an extension of the Commonwealth, it needs to exist in the global family. Twenty20 is a prime candidate for an Olympic sport, yet it will not make the breakthrough unless the ICC, IOC and the BCCI agree to accept positively WADA dope test.