New Delhi: In a massive revelation, BCCI chief selector Chetan Sharma has claimed that many cricketers in India take injections to pass the fitness test when they are 80 per cent fit, adding that cricketers play smart to avoid doping thing.
In a sensational sting operation, the 57-year-old was heard saying that Indian players have their own doctors outside of cricket, who are always available for them.
“If they are fit for only 85%… they tell us to let them play but medical science doesn’t clear them, this problem comes…the player wants to play, the player never refuses. But Like Bumrah, he was not even able to bow down then what will he do… One or two such major injuries happen.
“Otherwise even at 80%, these people…they are such scoundrels, they will silently go to the corner and take an injection and say that they are fit,” Sharma told Zee News.
“Not a pain killer. They take injections and no one gets to know about it. The player will have to take a prescription for a pain killer and he will get caught in anti-doping, they know directly which injection won’t come in anti-doping. They are big superstars. They will make one phone call. There are a thousand doctors, they will come at night and give them an injection,” he added.
