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Being an Indian citizen, I have to say that it is very easy to forge the date of birth column in the high school mark sheet. At the time of joining, the parents usually lower the age of their child by 6 months or an year and this new date of birth is then continued with every document such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID.etc. Most of the time, it goes on without any suspicion. However, in some cases, as a result of the physical appearance of the individual he gets caught and if he is unlucky, then he'll be sent for the bone-density test.
It is really strange as there is no mandatory to register when the child is born and that is usually done through hospital and on seeing these situation it is really strange someone to reduce their age as it is not fair for the other kids who are competing against them and these sort of malpractices should be given strict punishment so that someone's opportunity is robbed by these actions. What is the accuracy level when you test bone density to determine age Undecided.

As per the law, mandatory birth registration is there. But even now, the coverage is low in the rural areas. And you can imagine the situation we had 15 or 20 years back, when the data was not stored digitally. A lot many times, the compiled data would be lost (either due to natural disasters such as flood, or due to accidents such as fire). And the penalty given to the offenders is not very serious and it actually encourages such crime. For example, Delhi player Prince Ram Niwas Yadav was found to have faked his age in a domestic U-19 tournament two months back. He was only given a two-year suspension (BCCI could have banned him for life). In his case, he was 24 year old but claimed that he was 19 so that he could participate in the U19 tournament.

After the implementation of Adhar card Indo not think it is easy for anyone to manipulate Birth date in India. If I am correct the government does verify all the details submitted in Adhard card with the central database.

Every Gram panchayat and local municipal corporation are issuing Birth certificate. 15 years ago it was a completely different thing. It is very hard now to fake Birth certificate, after the digitalization of data done by UID.
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In the recent years, India has performed well in overseas pitches that supported pace bowling. But this was mostly due to the effort put in by seam bowlers such as Mohammad Shami and Ishant Sharma, as well as due to consistent performances with the bat by Virat Kohli. But the spinners and the other batsmen have not yet proved themselves in such conditions. And therefore, New Zealand has a real chance of upsetting India.
Why would any consider it as an upset as New Zealand does perform better in their own back ground and if they prepare green wickets India does have the fast bowling pedigree to challenge any team and the Indian batting depends upon Virat Kohli and if he fails to deliver they loose the match and that is what we saw in the ODI.

Indian pacers (Ishant, Shami, Bumrah.etc) will perform on green pitches. But the problem is with the batsmen. During the past, none of the batsmen (apart from Virat Kohli) have performed consistently on pitches that are supportive of pace bowling. And the performance of spinners on such surfaces have been pathetic as well. Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal may be better when compared to Ravichandran Ashwin in this regard, but even their bowling has been below par.

Highlight of SENA's Tour - Mix bag of performance for batsmen-

2018 South Africa tour was failure for all batsmen and all of them performed in patches Hardik 93 runs, Kohli's 150 score, Rohit 40+ score comes into my mind when every batsmen were struggling.

2018-19 England tour, again failure for Indian batsmen, Kohli was exceptional and then Pant / KL Rahul century (They are out anyway)

2018-19 Australia tour, Indian batsmen did good here. New openers Shaw and Mayank looked good, Pujara was man of the series, Rahane was in good form and Virat contributed as well but not according to his reputation.

Coming back to upcoming Test series. As of now no news on Ishant's injury so who know if he miss the first game. Navdeep saini or Umesh yadav are waiting. For spin, chances are Ashwin going to play first test and i wouldn't be very surprise if Jadeja make it into playing XI unless virat is planning to use Vihari as part-time bowler
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AFAIK,every born child should be registered withing the time frame from being born is mandatory to get birth certificate but here we have more corrupted government officials so we can pay some money as bribe and can register at any time when we want.Note: we can also take birth certificate for a person who doesn't even born in India. Cheesy
I am not deputing your claims as corruption is prevalent in India but from my experience dealing with people all around India what i found is that majority of the people from North of India does not go to hospitals when they are pregnant instead they deliver the child at home with the help of local nurse who does not have a degree from a medical school but who have the skills passed on through generation and hence they do not have a clear idea about the exact date of birth but having a different year of birth is fraudulent but it is happening because the authorities is also not having any idea about their real birth and they will accept what the parents claim.

Even i was shocked to hear this in the beginning but it is what it is and that is the fact.

That was the case 10-15 years back, but even in states like Bihar the majority of the births take place in hospitals now. Also, Aadhar card has been made mandatory in accessing government services and therefore the biometric information is recorded now, along with other details such as DOB. But then, India is a country of 1.4 billion people (expected to hit 3 billion by the end of this century) and we can't expect the system to cover each and every individual living here.
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AFAIK,every born child should be registered withing the time frame from being born is mandatory to get birth certificate but here we have more corrupted government officials so we can pay some money as bribe and can register at any time when we want.Note: we can also take birth certificate for a person who doesn't even born in India. Cheesy
I am not deputing your claims as corruption is prevalent in India but from my experience dealing with people all around India what i found is that majority of the people from North of India does not go to hospitals when they are pregnant instead they deliver the child at home with the help of local nurse who does not have a degree from a medical school but who have the skills passed on through generation and hence they do not have a clear idea about the exact date of birth but having a different year of birth is fraudulent but it is happening because the authorities is also not having any idea about their real birth and they will accept what the parents claim.

Even i was shocked to hear this in the beginning but it is what it is and that is the fact.
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Being an Indian citizen, I have to say that it is very easy to forge the date of birth column in the high school mark sheet. At the time of joining, the parents usually lower the age of their child by 6 months or an year and this new date of birth is then continued with every document such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID.etc. Most of the time, it goes on without any suspicion. However, in some cases, as a result of the physical appearance of the individual he gets caught and if he is unlucky, then he'll be sent for the bone-density test.
It is really strange as there is no mandatory to register when the child is born and that is usually done through hospital and on seeing these situation it is really strange someone to reduce their age as it is not fair for the other kids who are competing against them and these sort of malpractices should be given strict punishment so that someone's opportunity is robbed by these actions. What is the accuracy level when you test bone density to determine age Undecided.

As per the law, mandatory birth registration is there. But even now, the coverage is low in the rural areas. And you can imagine the situation we had 15 or 20 years back, when the data was not stored digitally. A lot many times, the compiled data would be lost (either due to natural disasters such as flood, or due to accidents such as fire). And the penalty given to the offenders is not very serious and it actually encourages such crime. For example, Delhi player Prince Ram Niwas Yadav was found to have faked his age in a domestic U-19 tournament two months back. He was only given a two-year suspension (BCCI could have banned him for life). In his case, he was 24 year old but claimed that he was 19 so that he could participate in the U19 tournament.
AFAIK,every born child should be registered withing the time frame from being born is mandatory to get birth certificate but here we have more corrupted government officials so we can pay some money as bribe and can register at any time when we want.Note: we can also take birth certificate for a person who doesn't even born in India. Cheesy
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Being an Indian citizen, I have to say that it is very easy to forge the date of birth column in the high school mark sheet. At the time of joining, the parents usually lower the age of their child by 6 months or an year and this new date of birth is then continued with every document such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID.etc. Most of the time, it goes on without any suspicion. However, in some cases, as a result of the physical appearance of the individual he gets caught and if he is unlucky, then he'll be sent for the bone-density test.
It is really strange as there is no mandatory to register when the child is born and that is usually done through hospital and on seeing these situation it is really strange someone to reduce their age as it is not fair for the other kids who are competing against them and these sort of malpractices should be given strict punishment so that someone's opportunity is robbed by these actions. What is the accuracy level when you test bone density to determine age Undecided.

As per the law, mandatory birth registration is there. But even now, the coverage is low in the rural areas. And you can imagine the situation we had 15 or 20 years back, when the data was not stored digitally. A lot many times, the compiled data would be lost (either due to natural disasters such as flood, or due to accidents such as fire). And the penalty given to the offenders is not very serious and it actually encourages such crime. For example, Delhi player Prince Ram Niwas Yadav was found to have faked his age in a domestic U-19 tournament two months back. He was only given a two-year suspension (BCCI could have banned him for life). In his case, he was 24 year old but claimed that he was 19 so that he could participate in the U19 tournament.
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Being an Indian citizen, I have to say that it is very easy to forge the date of birth column in the high school mark sheet. At the time of joining, the parents usually lower the age of their child by 6 months or an year and this new date of birth is then continued with every document such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID.etc. Most of the time, it goes on without any suspicion. However, in some cases, as a result of the physical appearance of the individual he gets caught and if he is unlucky, then he'll be sent for the bone-density test.
It is really strange as there is no mandatory to register when the child is born and that is usually done through hospital and on seeing these situation it is really strange someone to reduce their age as it is not fair for the other kids who are competing against them and these sort of malpractices should be given strict punishment so that someone's opportunity is robbed by these actions. What is the accuracy level when you test bone density to determine age Undecided.
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Yeah serious issue for u-15 and u-19 category that's why boards especially Asian boards taking this seriously. BCCI doing their thingy such as vetting younger players in Domestic cricket, It has fair amount of challenge but as far as i know x-ray (Bone-density test) comes when every other options fails such as Birth certificates, High school marksheet etc. Not full proof plan though but at-least they are serious and trying to crack down the age fraud.  

Being an Indian citizen, I have to say that it is very easy to forge the date of birth column in the high school mark sheet. At the time of joining, the parents usually lower the age of their child by 6 months or an year and this new date of birth is then continued with every document such as Aadhar Card, Voter ID.etc. Most of the time, it goes on without any suspicion. However, in some cases, as a result of the physical appearance of the individual he gets caught and if he is unlucky, then he'll be sent for the bone-density test.
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Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.

This can be a serious issue in age group tournaments (especially those for U-15 and U-19 groups). Players who fudge their age do have an unfair advantage. It is like allowing men to take part in tournaments which are meant only for women. But there is no ready made solution for this. It is not practical to conduct x-ray examination for all the players.

Yeah serious issue for u-15 and u-19 category that's why boards especially Asian boards taking this seriously. BCCI doing their thingy such as vetting younger players in Domestic cricket, It has fair amount of challenge but as far as i know x-ray (Bone-density test) comes when every other options fails such as Birth certificates, High school marksheet etc. Not full proof plan though but at-least they are serious and trying to crack down the age fraud.  

especially since many players come from villages where they just know their birth month and may be year so for them, it's easy to get fake documents as there is no proof. Even in my college I had one student whose birth month and year were forged but nobody ever bothered to take a look at it.
Yeah, Shivam Mavi was similiar case i suppose but they caught him eventually, Not Guilty as of now but investigation are in progress.
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Looks like you all are discussing forging documents but sadly it is not just forging but many don't have their birth even recorded, especially since many players come from villages where they just know their birth month and may be year so for them, it's easy to get fake documents as there is no proof. Even in my college I had one student whose birth month and year were forged but nobody ever bothered to take a look at it.

Tomorrow's test match have the same openers probably. Don't know whether to watch or not to watch as this would hamper India's rank in the WC tournament. Sharma may be back in one of the matches so we have a good bowler atleast. More than the batsmen, we need the best bowlers.
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Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.

This can be a serious issue in age group tournaments (especially those for U-15 and U-19 groups). Players who fudge their age do have an unfair advantage. It is like allowing men to take part in tournaments which are meant only for women. But there is no ready made solution for this. It is not practical to conduct x-ray examination for all the players.
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It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.
So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.

Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.
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It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.
So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.
Even in Sub-Continent big cities have facility of computer based certificates which are good but most of rural areas still have this advantage of doing tricks which will end soon but this was really works for many in past because they give wrong certificates and I am sure boards members also involved in this all as they take gift boxes for this which is now going to end in near future.
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It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.
So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.
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For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)

I have to agree on this part. Even during the recently concluded U19 World Cup, many of the players looked as if they were comfortably above 19 years (sadly most of them playing for the four Asian teams). It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.
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These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.
I was not aware of this strange situation where people will be able to lie about their age. I have read about Afridi in his biography that he claimed that he was not that young when he scored the fastest century and i thought it was just a publicity stunt to sell more books but i like the ten year difference between twins  Cheesy. I am not sure how that is even possible to lie about a ten year gap as these are well above my comprehension Grin.
Here in our society its nothing serious business because I am working in a company where we need to add personal stuff for many things once I have very interesting problem as daughter give me data she is 30 years old and second day mother was saying she is just 42 so I was very confuse as she was not giving any identity or proof but I have to manage because this was nothing serious just formalty so as @JSRAW already pointed we have thousands cases like this.
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These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.
I was not aware of this strange situation where people will be able to lie about their age. I have read about Afridi in his biography that he claimed that he was not that young when he scored the fastest century and i thought it was just a publicity stunt to sell more books but i like the ten year difference between twins  Cheesy. I am not sure how that is even possible to lie about a ten year gap as these are well above my comprehension Grin.
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Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 
If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)
These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.
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Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 
If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)
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Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 
It depends upon the skill level of the player, Sachin, Afridi all came during their younger days in the team and it is a rare occurrence and they were in the team because of their immense talent and they fulfilled their career. There is a lot more competition now and rather than pushing an younger player they need to help them developer and mature themselves.
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