Jaiswal and Shafali were not found at their designated locations when Doping Control Officers arrived for scheduled tests.
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has issued notices to Indian cricketers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shafali Verma for a "whereabouts failure".
According to a PTI report, both athletes, who are part of NADA's Registered Testing Pool (RTP), were not found at their designated locations when Doping Control Officers (DCOs) arrived for scheduled out-of-competition tests in late 2025.
NADA reportedly sought explanations for these absences in February 2026, but after receiving no response from either player, it officially recorded a "missed test".
The agency has formally notified both the BCCI and the ICC of these failures. "Notices have been issued to the concerned athletes, and the same has been intimated to the national federation (the BCCI) and the ICC," PTI quoted a source as saying.
Meanwhile, a BCCI source informed the news agency, "Yes, we have received notification from NADA on missed tests. We will check with them as to how it happened, and will take necessary steps so that such things do not happen in future."
"Cricket is back in the Olympics and we need to adhere to all the protocols so that everything goes on smoothly," the source added.
Under NADA rules, athletes in the RTP must provide their whereabouts with NADA and be available for testing within a given window each day. Three such "missed test" or "filing failure" violations within a rolling 12-month period constitute an anti-doping rule violation, which can lead to a suspension of up to two years.
For the second quarter of 2026, 13 cricketers are included in the National Anti-Doping Agency's (NADA) Registered Testing Pool (RTP). The 348-athlete pool, which mandates sharing whereabouts, now features Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel, who replaced Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer, alongside regulars including Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Deepti Sharma, and Renuka Singh.
Doping in cricket remains a contentious issue. The 2003 Shane Warne doping scandal is one of the most infamous moments in cricket history, occurring just one day before the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa.
In 2006, former Pakistani fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone during internal testing by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ahead of the Champions Trophy.
The PCB banned Akhtar for two years and Asif for one year, but it was later overturned due to issues in the testing process.