Yeah, but Bihar. And I remember, that U-19 teammate of Shaw and Gill, Manjot Kalra, getting suspended for age fraud. There's a video in circulation, which is pretty clear to see not fake, where he himself says in an interview that he is 14, close to 2 years before his IPL debut at 14.
In india its region specific. In south and west which are by far most developed parts of country has good birth records. Ie my parents received my birth certificate within 48 hours of of my birth. It was back in 1997 so you can imagine how much better it must be now while North and eastern parts from where sooryavanshi is which have high poverty don't have recorded birth certificates even in 2026. So there is every chance he might be one or two years older then his stated age
Uttar Pradesh and bihar are poorest states in india and don't have registered birth certificates so forget about vaibhav i have my dobuts about pant and jaiswal wethever they are age fudgers
many pakistani greats except imran and wasim are age frauds. Miandad, waqar, akthar now babar, shaheen and nassem all faked their age
I thought it was Shahid Afridi who was likely one of the biggest culprits. He was forever about 24 back in the day! Anyway, re your earlier reply to me, I was aware that it was the North and East of India where there is a great deal more poverty than elsewhere.
They do some bone density tests. I am not very knowledgeable in science though but apparently its as good a tell as you can have.
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Afridi is known case but but likes of maindad and waqar openly admitted age frauds. I think pathans and those rural punjab are more likely to do age frauds then those from metropolitan cites like lahore and Karachi
Axar having A brainfade and stubbs getting run out didn't help either
Sachin doesn't have the record though. It was Hassan Raza (did I get the name right) who holds the record for youngest test player (and international player too iirc)
