U19 WC Winner Among 62 Players Caught In Age Fraud, BCCI Swings Into Action

The BCCI has imposed a two-year ban on Bengal leg-spinner Rohit Yadav for allegedly misrepresenting his age, weeks after he was chosen in India’s Underneath-19 squad for the upcoming collection in opposition to Australia. Rohit, who’s initially from Uttar Pradesh, had represented India throughout the Underneath-19 workforce’s tour of Sri Lanka in July, taking six wickets and serving to the facet win the ultimate Take a look at. “He has been banned for 2 years,” mentioned a BCCI supply.

He was additionally a part of India’s U-19 residence one-dayers and multi-day video games in opposition to the touring Australia U-19 facet in Rajkot and Ahmedabad, slated later this month.

The age discrepancy got here to gentle when his paperwork have been scrutinised in Sri Lanka. Rohit has three delivery certificates carrying totally different years of delivery — 2007, 2009 and 2010 — making him ineligible to play in age-group cricket.

There have been additionally discrepancies in his Aadhaar data. When he was registered with the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal, his yr of delivery was recorded as 2007. His Aadhaar data subsequently confirmed 2006 in updates in 2017 and 2020 earlier than being modified to 2009 in 2021.

The CAB had earlier stored Rohit out of its junior groups over the discrepancies and subsequently knowledgeable the BCCI.

The Board has now barred him from taking part in home cricket for 2 years and knowledgeable all affiliated state associations.

CAB crackdown on 62 cricketers

Rohit is amongst 62 gamers declared ineligible for registration or switch for any match throughout the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons by the CAB over documentation and age-related discrepancies.

The listing additionally contains former India Underneath-19 World Cup winner Ravi Kumar and left-arm spin all-rounder Vishal Bhatti, who has made three first-class and two Checklist A appearances.

Ravi, a key member of India’s 2022 Underneath-19 World Cup-winning workforce, has been flagged for a 45-month age discrepancy in CAB data.

The CAB has additionally recognized vital discrepancies involving a number of different age-group gamers, with some data exhibiting variations of a number of years.

The motion is a part of the affiliation’s wider scrutiny of participant documentation and age data which has been uploaded on its web site.

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