Police action against age-fudging in Delhi junior cricket was long overdue | The Indian Express

Police action against age-fudging in Delhi junior cricket was long overdue | The Indian Express

Written by Bishan Singh Bedi |Updated: June 20, 2019 8:47:36 am

The writer is a former captain of the Indian cricket team.

Police action against age-fudging in Delhi junior cricket was long overdue

Now, please allow me to mention our collective fight against all of DDCA’s malpractices over the years. If it wasn’t for Kirti Azad’s sustained recorded communication with the DDCA and Delhi Police, this mess of age-fudging might have never seen the light of day.

It is the manipulative parents, dubious coaches, compromised schools and, of course, the ever-conniving top DDCA officials who are the real villains.

Last week, I read a report about the Delhi Police filing a chargesheet in the age-fudging case involving several of Delhi’s junior cricketers and their parents in your esteemed paper and simply chuckled to myself. For me, it is always painful to read about any kind of police action against cricketers, but I had my reasons to be amused.