India, April 15 -- India's anti-doping net has widened again, and this time, two of the country's T20 World Cup-winning cricketers are part of the fresh update. Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel have been added to the National Anti-Doping Agency's Registered Testing Pool for the second quarter of 2026, replacing Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer in the revised list. The updated RTP now covers 348 athletes across disciplines, with cricket accounting for 14 names.

The change is significant not because it points to any allegation, but because of what RTP membership actually means. Athletes in the pool fall under a tighter anti-doping compliance structure. They must regularly submit whereabouts details, including where they will be training, liv...