NEW DELHI: With Chetan Sharma quitting from the position of the chief selector after an undercover sting, Shiv Sundar Das is prone to be be the interim head of the choice committee.
Chief selector Chetan had earlier resigned on Friday after a sting operation caught him gossiping about gamers and claiming the widespread use of unsanctioned injections to cross health checks.
Former India opener SS Das, who’s from Central Zone, may now be appointed because the interim chairman of the committee as he has performed essentially the most variety of Tests among the many present lot within the choice panel. Das has 23 Tests to his identify.
Along with Das, the committee has Subroto Banerjee (East Zone), Salil Ankola (West Zone) and Sridharan Sharath (South Zone) as its different members.
“Chetan has tendered his resignation to BCCI secretary Jay Shah and his resignation has been accepted. His position had become untenable after the sting operation. He resigned voluntarily and wasn’t asked to resign,” a senior BCCI supply advised PTI on the situation of anonymity on Friday.
Chetan was in Kolkata together with different choice committee members for the Ranji Trophy last between Bengal and Saurashtra. The selectors had been there to pick the Irani Cup crew.
But as soon as Chetan’s resignation was accepted, the 57-year-old left for Delhi and prevented the ready media on the airport in Kolkata.
In the sting Chetan had additionally spoken concerning the relationship between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and alleged that there was an ego tussle between Kohli and former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.
It is learnt that Chetan’s alleged remarks didn’t go down nicely with the BCCI high brass, and the present nationwide squad members additionally misplaced belief in him.
“Coach Rahul Dravid, captains Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya have completely lost faith in him. He couldn’t have possibly sat across the table along with them for selection committee meetings as he had lost all respect. He paid the price for being a big mouth,” stated one other BCCI supply.
Chetan was allegedly lured into the sting operation on the pretext that his inputs had been required for analysis work for a docu-series on a preferred OTT platform.
(With inputs from PTI)
Chief selector Chetan had earlier resigned on Friday after a sting operation caught him gossiping about gamers and claiming the widespread use of unsanctioned injections to cross health checks.
Former India opener SS Das, who’s from Central Zone, may now be appointed because the interim chairman of the committee as he has performed essentially the most variety of Tests among the many present lot within the choice panel. Das has 23 Tests to his identify.
Along with Das, the committee has Subroto Banerjee (East Zone), Salil Ankola (West Zone) and Sridharan Sharath (South Zone) as its different members.
“Chetan has tendered his resignation to BCCI secretary Jay Shah and his resignation has been accepted. His position had become untenable after the sting operation. He resigned voluntarily and wasn’t asked to resign,” a senior BCCI supply advised PTI on the situation of anonymity on Friday.
Chetan was in Kolkata together with different choice committee members for the Ranji Trophy last between Bengal and Saurashtra. The selectors had been there to pick the Irani Cup crew.
But as soon as Chetan’s resignation was accepted, the 57-year-old left for Delhi and prevented the ready media on the airport in Kolkata.
In the sting Chetan had additionally spoken concerning the relationship between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and alleged that there was an ego tussle between Kohli and former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.
It is learnt that Chetan’s alleged remarks didn’t go down nicely with the BCCI high brass, and the present nationwide squad members additionally misplaced belief in him.
“Coach Rahul Dravid, captains Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya have completely lost faith in him. He couldn’t have possibly sat across the table along with them for selection committee meetings as he had lost all respect. He paid the price for being a big mouth,” stated one other BCCI supply.
Chetan was allegedly lured into the sting operation on the pretext that his inputs had been required for analysis work for a docu-series on a preferred OTT platform.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com