Taking a big decision, the Board of Cricket in India (BCCI) has made a big strictness on Indian cricketers who fraud the age. There will be no injustice with young cricketers and they will get a chance to play easily. Earlier, many cricketers used to reduce their age and participate in junior level cricket tournaments. In such a situation, it used to be unfair with good cricketers, but this big decision of BCCI will increase the trouble of those who fraudulently in the age. BCCI has started conducting an additional bone test at the junior level. This will reveal the exact age of cricketers.
BCCI started another test
According to the current rules, a player undergoes a bone test to determine the edge through TW3 Methology (Test used to assess bone age) and the same edge group has 1 factor added to determine his eligibility for the next session. After this a second bone test will be done.
According to reports, the under-16 players will have to undergo a bone test for the second time from the next session, which have failed from the +1 factor. This test is being done to locate the exact age. At this time, bone age limit for under-16 players has been fixed 16.5 years and 15 years for under-15 girls.
This is how the accurate age will come out
According to reports, to participate in the Under-16, a player’s bone age should be 16.4 or less from the next session and the women’s age should be 14.9 or less. To further clarify this, if a male under-16 player’s bone test results in the 2025-26 session, then they will not be re-tested in the next session and if a player’s bone is 15.5 or more, it will be 16.5 or more when adding one year, which crosses the eligibility limit of 16.4 and will give it out of the under-16 tournament.
Apart from this, if a player’s bone test for under-15 girls shows that she is 13.9 years old in this session, she is eligible to play with a bone age of 14.9 in the next session, but if she tests 14 or more in this session, she can take part now, but she will not be able to share the next year according to 14.9 age.
These players have done Edge Fraud
Nitish Rana and Rasikh Salaam Dar Edge, who played in IPL, have been frauded. Nitish was found guilty of Edge Fraud, due to which BCCI also banned them. There was a disturbance in the birth date of left -handed batsman Nitish Rana. In 2015, BCCI banned 22 players from Delhi for their age. Nitish’s name was also included in this. Nitish was banned to play the age-group tournament.
Apart from this, Jammu and Kashmir cricketer Rasikh Salaam Dar had a two-year ban in the case of age fraud. Apart from this, Delhi cricketer Prince Ram Niwas Yadav was banned by BCCI from domestic cricket for two sessions. Yadav was found guilty of wrong age in the Under-19 tournament.