Mumbai, April 20 -- Rahul Dravid once stood on a podium and spoke for 30 minutes on a topic he holds close to the chest: the menace of age fraud in sports.
"I think of this overage business as dangerous and even toxic," Dravid, the former India captain and one of the greatest batters in the game, said while delivering a lecture at the MAK Pataudi Memorial in 2015. "At 14, it may be a matter of age criteria, at 25 it may be fixing and corruption. How are the two different in any way? In both cases, is it not blatant cheating?"
The lecture took place 10 years ago, but to this day, the problem of age fraud continues to plague sports in India.
Last month, the Indian sports ministry took steps to address the problem by working on a draft bill...