As the hunt continues for the scapegoats for Delhi’s poor marketing campaign so far within the ongoing Ranji Trophy championship, coach Abhay Sharma, selectors Gagan Khoda, Mayank Sidana and Anil Bharadwaj seem like the gentle targets.
After host Saurashtra crushed Delhi by 214 runs with greater than a day to spare on Thursday, the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) seems set to make some adjustments earlier than the subsequent two dwelling video games. It is known that the selectors might nicely be on their means out. Abhay might survive the axe.
DDCA president Rohan Jaitley took a critical view of the developments, the selectors having variations and one in every of them strolling out of a gathering. He really helpful removing of the selectors and the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) supported “disbanding the selection committee”.
Continuing with the sample of nepotism, seeped deep into the chequered historical past of mismanagement within the DDCA, the interference of the elected officers in choice issues is seen because the bane of all troubles. Strangely, neither the selectors nor the coach have any contractual obligation in direction of the DDCA.
Though the selectors acquired reward for holding non-performers like former captains Pradeep Sangwan and Nitish Rana out of the workforce, they weren’t even consulted when two ‘net bowlers’ had been picked to journey with the Delhi workforce to Rajkot.
Insiders reveal that the CAC was responsible of overstepping the transient of being observers within the choice committee conferences. It is learnt that Khoda stood agency towards the repeated interference from the DDCA officers.
Former Test all-rounder Kirti Azad stood by the choice committee. “Why do you blame the selectors? When the selectors are given barely few days to select the team, what can they do? We need to sympathise with the selectors rather than hold them as scapegoats,” he mentioned.
The function of the choice committee is prone to be carried out by the CAC.