Age fraud returns to haunt Cricket Association of Bengal

But there was further embarrassment as Ajharuddin too was marked disqualified by the BCCI and told to return home on Tuesday.Bengal will now have to do with only 14 players. They begin their Vinoo Mankad Trophy campaign on Friday against Punjab in Surat.Apart from the trio who were disqualified, Harshwardhan Singh and Shekhar Singh Chauhan, who were both in the probables' list, have been handed a two-year suspension by the Board.These players too, it was learnt, had produced fake birth certificates.According to sources, the CAB is contemplating pulling up its junior selection committee chairman Madan Ghosh for "not doing enough homework on the players and their whereabouts.""The CAB will deal with the matter very seriously. Age fraud is a big crime in sports and especially in cricket, and no one would be spared if caught doing any mischief."We would also approach the government to work out a mechanism through which we can verify the authenticity of the documents provided by the cricketers so that in future such incidents may be curbed," CAB secretary Avishek Dalmiya told The Telegraph.The incident came to light on a day when the BCCI announced it would strengthen its stand on zero-tolerance for age fraud in cricket. "In an effort to strengthen its stand on zero-tolerance for age fraud in cricket, BCCI has provided helpline numbers to all cricketers, team support staff and administrators of all state cricket associations." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://justpaste.it/2qe7f

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