Does BCCI take performance into account?
The first-class cricketers in the country and many stakeholders have a legitimate right to know how the BCCI’s special committee picks players for the annual retainership, also known as the central contract, writes G Viswanath in the Hindu .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
The first-class cricketers in the country and many stakeholders have a legitimate right to know how the BCCI’s special committee picks players for the annual retainership, also known as the central contract, writes G Viswanath in the Hindu.
If performance for the national team in Tests or one-day internationals is the basis, then one is left wondering why Mumbai’s Rohit Sharma figures in Grade B. He has not been capped in Test cricket so far. In the previous contractual period Sharma played against England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies and he scored 152 runs in 11 innings in which he remained not out five times. His scores were 11 not out, 3, 28, 8 not out (against England), 25 not out, 4 not out, 15 (against Sri Lanka), did not bat and 43 against New Zealand and 4, 0, 11 and 1 against the West Indies.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo