The Jharkhand State Cricket Association has suspended 33 Under-16 cricketers for two years for producing fake age certificates.
The BCCI’s (Board of Control for Cricket in India) doctors committee verified the age of 52 cricketers in the Under-16 category but only 19 passed the test, while 33 others were found to be over-aged, Convenor of the Tournament Committee Asim Kumar Singh said.
The Tournament Committee wanted to suspend the cricketers for five years, but reduced it to two years considering their career, Singh, who is also the Assistant Secretary of JSCA, said.
The cricketers had been warned many times to produce the right age certificate, but they did not pay any heed to the directive.
Singh said BCCI has recognised certain hospitals in each State to verify the age of cricketers, who are playing in the tournaments organised by BCCI or its affiliated associations.
Keywords: Jharkhand State Cricket Association, JSCA, Under-16 cricketers, Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI, Under-16 cricketers suspended,
Comments:
Getting fake birth certificate is the order of the day if money is paid under the table at all municipal and state level offices in India. At present there is no uniformity of registering births at various States in India.Be it cricket or any criminal offense one can escape law ??
Punishment to those young budding cricketers is on good lines. They were rightly punished. And 2 years is good enough in a country where a under-age rapist will get free in few months. However, these young and possibly their parents dared to take this route because this is the way in our country. If there are certain wrong ways to get things done, people will always be lured, why not weed out those possible wrong ways in the first place so that nobody even gets a chance to follow this path? Shall we not enforce the crime not to happen rather than punishing people by enabling an environment which allows crime to happen?
Feel sorry for these young cricketers........In fact punishment should be given to their parents...... certificates are sold in the corrupt Govt departments and one can have these as per his choice.....There are number of other cricketers who are playing for states including Ranji on fake age certificates......What action is being taken against them........The fact that these are in the knoweldge of state cricket association officials.......Any action plan for them? only God can do something.....
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