World Anti-Doping Agency Director-General David Howman will be in India this week to address BCCI’s concerns on the vexed “whereabout clause”.

Howman said WADA were concerned and BCCI’s objection to the new code was the lone obstacle which he was confident of solving during his Wednesday meeting with the Indian cricket administrators.

“In the last 18 months they’ve (ICC) got rules, they’re doing out-of-competition testing so in that brief period of time they have done a heck of a lot. The only hiccup they have had is the BCCI has said they are not comfortable with this ‘whereabouts’ requirement,” Howman said.

The WADA official pointed out that the Indian government was one of the early signatories and if the code is now construed as unconstitutional, as the BCCI had claimed, it would put the government in an unenviable position.

The WADA official also dismissed notions that sharing the whereabout in advance would jeopardise players’ security. “I don’t have access to that (athlete) information, so that shows how strong we are about it. We have four people in our organisation who have access. They have all been through full security, police checks and the like. So from my point of view there is nothing more that we can do,” he said.