Tag: Age Fudging

Cuttack: Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) on Thursday dropped Anurag Kanojia, a U-19 player, for alleged discrepancies in the documents submitted by him as proof of age. The officials of the association confirmed that the decision to drop Kanojia was taken after a deviation was found in the date of birth in the certificates and documents […]

Cuttack: Involvement of six more cricketers of the Odisha U-19 cricket team in age fudging has come to fore after a petition has reportedly been filed with Sports Integrity Wing of CBI and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The cricketers against whom the petition has been filed by the All India […]

Bhubaneswar: Following an order for a departmental inquiry into the age fudging allegation against Director of Higher Education Prof Nihar Ranjan Patnaik, the official today clarified the charges are baseless and he has not done anything wrong. Talking to OTV over telephone, Patnaik said, “Whatever has been telecast on TV channels regarding my age has […]

Mumbai/Bubaneswar: More instances of age fudging in Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) came to fore after Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned as many as 19 cricketers from the State for misrepresenting their ages. OCA Secretary Asirbad Behera confirmed that citing discrepancies in the birth certificate, the BCCI has issued the ban. Owing […]

Cuttack: New revelation has disproved the claim of Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) CEO Bidyut Nayak, who had refuted the charge of manipulating the age of his son to enable him to play under-19 matches and showed the details contained in it have been forged. The birth certificate of Subham Nayak, son of Bidyut, issued by […]

Cuttack: The CBI today quizzed chief coordinator of Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) Daniel Rout for around three hours at the OCA office here in the much hyped age fudging scam. A three-member team of the central probe agency also seized some documents from Rout. Some other fficials of the association were also interrogated. Rout, who […]

Cuttack: After being haunted by age-fudging controversy for the past several years, the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) has finally come up with a mobile application to curb the illegal practice. The mobile application was rolled out during the annual general body meeting of the State cricket body here today. The app has a central database […]

Cuttack: Two cricketers from Odisha have been banned for two seasons by the BCCI from playing domestic cricket after being found guilty of fudging their age in under-23 tournaments. The banned cricketers identified as Somen Chand and Biswajit Mallick who were registered with the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) have been banned from playing in 2021-22 […]