Exclusive: World Juniors Results could be declared void! Israr Ahmed & Abbas Shoukat must undergo an independent formal medical age test within 28 days.

Saturday 27th August 2016

If you had read the below article, we told you we would keep you informed of any development that would occured.



Well, we just had confirmation by extremely reliable sources (I could tell you but then, I would have to kill you) that Andrew Shelley has written to Pakistan Squash Federation insisting that Israr Ahmed and Abbas Shoukat must undergo and pass an independent formal medical age test using an X-ray to assess bone age within 28 days.



If they do not get this done or not completed successfully then the players would be regarded as ineligible because they are overage and the results achieved in the World Juniors declared void.



When asked to comment Andrew Shelley explained that this is an ongoing matter and declined to do so.



Once again, any more development, you’ll be the first to know about it!

Saturday 20th August

Unless you were on holidays on the moon, you must be aware that Egypt has lost their Boys World Juniors Team Title for the first time since 2008. And it would appear that Pakistan is again put under scrutinity over overage juniors.



Well, not that it’s breaking news, a Pakistani article dated 2015 - states clearly “Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has been allowing overage players to compete at international junior events while debarring them from appearing in national junior events.”



And in there appears the name ‘Israr Ahmed’ - who got the first point for Pakistan in the recent World Junior Team Final against Egypt Saadeldin Abouaish - in the suspected overage players….. Yes, a year ago alreay…



Read the article…

Now, in an exclusive note addressed directly to SquashSite, Andrew Shelley, WSF Chief Executive wrote:



‘The item that has appeared in Pakistani media today does reinforce why we need to move forward with age testing to bring clarity to the situation. We have to be able to clear the players or stop the alleged practice of altering passports at pre or early teen stage and continuing an extended junior career using a ‘revised’ date of birth’.



He was kind enough to send us what he personnally wrote to the Pakistan Federation, ASF and a few other official bodies:



“It must be accepted by the Pakistan Squash Federation that there seem to be a large number of officials who believe that some Pakistani players may have passports that do not equate to their actual age. Equally, the Pakistan Federation should have the opportunity to put the doubts to rest by proving them to be unfounded.



“The way to achieve this would be for ASF to consider insisting that all entries from Pakistan for the Asian Junior Championships in September must be available for an age testing procedure by scan arranged in Kuala Lumpur, if selected by ASF, before they may compete.



“This would enable them to be formally cleared to participate, and so cause any doubt to cease. (It would also enable any players who had also competed in the World Juniors to have any doubts about their results set aside).



This is clearly a story that’s likely to develop, we’ll keep you informed … Ah, and don’t forget: on SquashSite, when we say “Joe Bloke talked/wrote to us”, Joe actually did….