The International Cricket Council (ICC) has been conducting anti-doping tests at its events since 2002 but became a signatory of WADA in July 2006. The updated WADA code was unanimously approved last year by the ICC board.

During the trial period the overwhelming majority of players from all countries, except India, submitted whereabouts information.

The code mandates the establishment of an International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP) of players who are nominated for random testing based on their ICC rankings. Players from this pool have to inform the ICC at the beginning of every quarter of the year, a location and time that they will be available for an hour each day in that quarter for testing.

If the player is changing the schedule, he/she has to update the whereabouts information to the WADA officer online or through SMS.

There are 11 Indian players in the ICC's IRTP, namely Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Munaf Patel, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Jhulan Goswami and Mithali Raj.

But more than the privacy, it must be the security that players must be more concerned with.

Dhoni and Tendulkar have received security threats from terrorist organisations and a certain degree of security risk prevails in providing information about whereabouts in advance - though WADA claims that the information is kept strictly confidential.

The BCCI has already missed the Aug 1 deadline to sign the code. All other ICC members have signed the code.