Muthiah refutes Azharuddin's charges
The president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India AC Muthiah on Wednesday strongly refuted the "unfounded outbursts of Md Azharuddin" during the recent interview the former Indian captain gave a news weekly
Staff Reporter
17-Jan-2001
The president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India AC Muthiah
on Wednesday strongly refuted the "unfounded outbursts of Md
Azharuddin" during the recent interview the former Indian captain
gave a news weekly.
In a statement released in Chennai, Muthiah said he was anguished to
note Azharuddin's allegation in which he had stated: "When I was made
captain, some people in the BCCI were unhappy about my selection. The
present BCCI president AC Muthiah opposed my candidature."
Muthiah pointed out that he was nowhere in the picture as far as the
BCCI was concerned when the captaincy of Azharuddin was being proposed
and discussed in 1990 as Muthiah joined the board as a working
committee member only in 1997 and was duly elected as vice president
at Calcutta in 1998. Even when Azharuddin was re-appointed as captain
of the Indian team in 1998, Muthiah totally denied that he opposed the
nomination of Azharuddin in any forum.
In his statement, Muthiah concludes that he is a staunch believer in
hardcore professionalism in administrative matters and he has always
maintained and believed that selecting the captain of the team was the
job of the selection committee. He declares that he saw no role
whatsoever in him in the process.