Cuttack: The Odisha Cricket Association has decided to conduct "necessary medical test" for age determination of players in addition to more stringent scrutiny of records following a string of controversy over selection of players with fudged certificates for state teams.

The decision was taken at the association's working committee meeting on Thursday with the senior inter-district Kalahandi Cup and inter-district under-16 tournaments starting from June 1 in mind.

Working committee chairman Dhiren Pallai said: "So far as the under-16 tournament is concerned, necessary medical test of all players will be done prior to their respective tournaments to determine the age."

"We will strictly deal with such issues and no team will be allowed to include overage players to take part in the junior inter-district tournaments," he said.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) axed six players from the state's under-19 boys' team in September 2016 and seven others from the women's team in October 2016 for discrepancies in age certificates.

This had caused major embarrassment for the association.

The CBI has been probing into the matter following allegations that nearly 36 cricketers in Odisha had forged their dates of birth to play in junior-level teams of the state.