Age-frauding might be one of the biggest crime when it comes to sports. Since age has a lot of restrictions and most of the matches are held up according to age and category.
But there are times when cricketers frauded their age which made them get banned and face severe drawbacks due to their unprofessional behavior.
Rahul Dravid once described that age frauding in cricketers is one of the most heinous crimes. It also might destroy one’s career as a cricketer since there are chances of them getting banned from participating in matches. If participants are found guilty saying that their birth year is different from the year mentioned on their birth certificate. It gets them a ban of 2 years from participating in any age-measured cricket tournaments.
Let’s take a look at the cricketers who got caught age frauding and faced a ban from participating:
1. Prince Ram Niwas Yadav
Back in 2019, he got banned from playing age-group cricket. This happened when BCCI found that he reduced his age by 5 years just to participate in an age group cricket tournament with the team and the against the teammates who are allegedly younger than him.
2. Ankeet Bawne
Ankeet was selected and announced to be the captain of the U-19 series. But he was banned at the last moment just because of his age which messed up just by a few months. His DOB on his birth certificate was 1st Sept 1992, but on the BCCI’s record, the date recorded at 17th Dec 1991.
3. Rasikh Salam
Rasikh used to play for Mumbai Indians and he was originally from Jammu and Kashmir. But he was banned from participating in the tournament for 2 years, just because he was caught age-frauding.
4. Manjot Kalra
Back in 2018 during the U-19 match, Manjot became the eye candy and one of the best performers. People started rooting for him because of his amazing performance. But as his real age got revealed he was banned by the BCCI in Dec 2019.
5. Nitish Rana
He was one of the rising stars playing for KKR during IPL. But due to age frauding, he was banned from age-group cricket back in 2015 itself. Now that ban has actually caused a huge smash to his career making him go through a crunch now.
