Arthur Crabtree wrote:Naseem Shah (sixteen years old) took a hattrick!
meninblue wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:He is probably 18+ if not more. Indian board is banning such cricketers temporarily as and when they have been found out.PCB isn't doing anything.
Another Shahid Afridi or Rashid Khan who never grows old.
sussexpob wrote:meninblue wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:He is probably 18+ if not more. Indian board is banning such cricketers temporarily as and when they have been found out.PCB isn't doing anything.
Another Shahid Afridi or Rashid Khan who never grows old.
Its hardly comparable, is it? India can be seen to be doing a lot, but their player pool comes pretty much exclusively from the higher classes (last Dalit player was Vinod Kambli in the mid-90s, wasnt it? Happy to be corrected). When the system is based on official electronic birth registrations, I would say its much easier to verify this information in people born inside the elite systems, in hospitals, under proper administration. Rashid Khan was born under the Taliban Regime in a city that was a war zone, and spent his early life as a refugee in another country.... you think in war zones people are keeping accurate statistics on birthrates? Or when millions of refugees are flooding into foreign countries?
Shahid Afridi was born in Pakistan's tribal area at the time of the Mujaheddin/Afghan Wars, where currently UNICEF are making a big deal to highlight the fact that only 1% of the population are officially registered, which creates massive problems for the population accessing things like medical treatment, because they officially dont exist. Cricket boards cant be blamed for this sort of thing. Its pretty much impossible to verify someones age.
Once the bones fuse in the wrist at around 16, I think accurate biological assessment of age becomes tremendously difficult, so in short there is very little they can do. Its pretty much impossible to verify.
It's not a big task to identify that players are many years older by looking at their faces, like in case of Rashid Khan. We do not need a birth certificate to say Rashid Khan was not 18 when he was claimed to be 18.
In such cases which are very likely to be age fudging the tests can be carried out like bone marrow tests.
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