Rahul Dravid: What the return of 'The Wall' means for Indian cricket.
Try and draw Rahul Dravid into discussing what challenges he faces as new chief coach of the Indian team, chances are he will steer the conversation around to age-fudging in Indian cricket.
Birth certificates, doctored to show boys or girls a couple of years younger than they are, is rampant in Indian sport at junior levels. This gets Dravid's goat.
"It is terribly unfair on say 12-13 year olds who are physically much weaker than 15-16 year olds who have cheated on age," he told me in an interview a year ago.
"On one hand, this can destroy the younger player psychologically, on the other, it can lull the older into an exaggerated sense of achievement, which gets exposed at a higher level. The loss is on both counts. Unfortunately, this is being done with the connivance of parents, coaches, school principals and even state cricket association officials," Dravid fretted.
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