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Consider players' age as per birth certificate: HC to BCCI

New Delhi: A Delhi Court has directed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to consider the age of players on the basis of birth certificates or adopt a scientific method to determine

PTI Published : Dec 29, 2013 11:27 IST, Updated : Dec 29, 2013 11:32 IST

The court observed that "It would be unrealistic to say that all the documents produced in support of age of a player seeking to play a tournament meant for a particular age group would be authentic documents.

"There is a reasonable possibility of some of the documents being forged or tampered with. However, such instances, cannot, in my view, be a good ground to outrightly reject all such documents, when the age determined by use of TW3 method is not in conformity with the age indicated in the documents."

The court further said, "There may be cases where the documents produced are absolutely genuine and the age recorded therein is absolutely correct. It would be highly unreasonable and unfair to the players if despite submitting such authentic and genuine documents, they are denied opportunity to play in a tournament meant for their age group, merely because in the medical opinion their age could be more than 16 years..."






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