A day after one Masrum Sarkar was reported as having smashed a triple century in a CAB 110-point league match in Kanchrapara, it was like a Pandora’s Box opened.It has been learnt that the young gun who scored the pacy 301-run marathon knock off 126 balls, turning up for Kanchrapara Cricket Coaching Centre (CCC), isn’t actually Masrum Sarkar himself, but one Soumen Ghosh, who reportedly turned up for Masrum at the match against Shilpashree Dum Dum Cricket Coaching Centre (CCC) in the fateful junior circuit league match.In fact, the opponents Shilpashree Dum Dum CCC have lodged a formal complaint with the umpires at the two-day match that ended today. For the record, Soumen, turning up for Masrum, had scored 301 (off 126 balls) in Kanchrapara CCC’s 634 all out yesterday. Meanwhile, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) officials were left red-faced after the controversial case of alleged impersonation came to light this morning. Umpires at the match, Gautam Roy and Dhiman Biswas, have already forwarded the opponent team’s written complaint to the CAB.Quite expectedly, both Masrum and Soumen didn’t turn up for the action at the start of the day’s play, and the two umpires immediately swung into action. The photo ID card of Masrum—Soumen’s face naturally didn’t match the photo on Masrum’s card—was attached with the formal complaint from Shilpashree Dum Dum CCC team officials.The CAB has already decided to start a suo motu investigation into the alleged case of impersonation, even as the administration is being castigated by the media for oversight at the junior and sub-junior level.
