Age will not weary them. No, really

My quest to discover the real age of Afghanistan's cricketers continues apace. An unnamed source close to the team for a number of years told me today that one of their players, who sadly must remain nameless for now, claims to be 25 but is in fact "more like 40. Come on. Look at him. He's been playing forever". Forty might sound unduly harsh, and that's because it is. When challenged, my source relented and we agreed on "anywhere between 35 and 38". The player himself simply has no idea; not even his own mum can tell him, though each year she gives a ballpark figure ranging from 21-29, though perhaps her vagueness smacks of her own disbelief at the unstoppable sands of time, and the years that can't help but condemn.