The BCCI strongly backed the players, saying that the 'whereabouts' clause is an 'invasion into the privacy of an individual'.

'Cricket should be free from doping. BCCI does not have any objection to that. However, BCCI felt that players should be tested during the series or during the camps. They cannot be tested when they are not playing cricket,' BCCI president Shashank Manohar said after an emergency meeting of the working committee, which was also attended by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and ICC officials.

The decision of the BCCI puts it on a collision course with the ICC, which is a signatory to WADA's anti-doping norms.