The Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) is as soon as once more within the news for all mistaken causes as senior and U-25 males’s selector Mayank Sidana staged a walkout from a range assembly after a fallout with the chairman of selectors Gagan Khoda and secretary Siddharth Sahib Singh.
If that isn’t sufficient, Delhi head coach Abhay Sharma’s function in selling specialist middle-order batter Ayush Badoni to open on his Ranji Trophy debut on a humid monitor in opposition to a home doyen like Jaydev Unadkat can also be below the scanner.
The 19-strong Delhi squad has two specialist openers — Vaibhav Sharma and Salil Malhotra — who’re at the moment sitting within the workforce lodge as BCCI rule doesn’t permit greater than 15 gamers to be current within the dressing room.
The senior Delhi workforce was on the verge of getting bowled out for lower than 20 in opposition to Saurashtra at Rajkot earlier than managing 133, with Jaydev Unadkat getting 8 /39, together with a report first-over hat-trick.
Khoda, a former nationwide selector and secretary Verma, who himself is a former first-class participant, made counter-allegations that Sidana was attempting to “push dubious candidates” for the U-25 workforce that may play the CK Nayudu Trophy.
On Wednesday, there was a gathering to pick the Delhi U-25 workforce by DDCA’s senior choice committee, and Sidana walked out of the assembly with out signing the squad sheet.
“Yes, I protested on certain selections by chairman Gagan Khoda and another selector Anil Bhardwaj. Even secretary Siddharth Verma didn’t pay heed to my objections. So I didn’t sign the team sheet and walked out. Everything is recorded on camera,” Sidana, who has performed 30 first-class, 33 List A and 22 T20 video games for Punjab, instructed PTI.
When requested what was the bone of competition, Sidana stated, “Mr Khoda didn’t watch any of the U-25 trial games and the other selector Mr Bhardwaj only wants one player in the team, Vikas Solanki.
“My contention was his performance when given a chance earlier in BCCI (U-25) tournaments hasn’t been great but they insisted on going by trial game results. I can’t support unfair practices.” When Khoda, who performed a few ODIs for India again in 1998, was requested about Sidana’s allegations, he was miffed.
“I have played enough cricket and also been a national selector. I don’t wish to demean myself reacting to Sidana’s allegations. I will not say a word. You can go and ask him why did he walk out of the meeting,” Khoda stated.
But Khoda didn’t have a convincing reply when requested why Badoni was made to open on a troublesome monitor once they despatched two specialist openers, who are usually not even within the 15.
“Look, we select a team and the coach selects the playing XI. We don’t interfere,” Khoda stated.
When DDCA secretary Verma was contacted, he stated that there hasn’t been any mistaken choices.
“Mayank Sidana wanted a player named Gagan Vats. Vats, we can show score sheets that Solanki scored more in trial games. It was really unfortunate that he didn’t sign the squad sheet,” Verma, son of former Delhi CM late Sahib Singh Verma and youthful brother of BJP MP Pravesh Verma, stated.
The different allegation that has been levelled in opposition to Verma is that he didn’t permit former India pacer and U-25 coach Pankaj Singh to affix the choice assembly bodily.
“He wasn’t allowed in the meeting as he didn’t have secretary’s approval to attend the discussions physically. This is despite the fact that as a coach, his inputs were necessary,” a DDCA official instructed PTI on the situation of anonymity.
Verma, who has performed Ranji Trophy for Delhi and Railways, defended the transfer.
“We patched a call with Pankaj and sought his views,” he stated.
However, the DDCA secretary didn’t have a solution to among the questionable calls taken by the Ranji workforce head coach.
Why are Vaibhav and Salil sitting within the workforce lodge when each have opened for Delhi in U-19s and U-25s? How come Himmat Singh, who just lately was in India’s Emerging squad and vice-captain until the final sport, get dropped? Why is Delhi enjoying with solely two specialist bowlers? There are too many questions that begs for solutions.