Selectors will stand up to BCCI
Indian selectors brush off the rumours that high-profile seniors are dropped for Bangladesh's tour, reports Kadambari Murali.
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Indian selectors brush off the rumours that high-profile seniors are dropped for Bangladesh's tour, reports Kadambari Murali.
“I am shocked and appalled by what I saw and read,” said one selector. “How can unnamed board sources be quoted saying Ganguly and Tendulkar and the others will be dropped? On what cricketing grounds can we drop someone like Zaheer Khan? If the BCCI has disciplinary issues with any of them, that is something it has to take a call on. If it doesn’t, we can pick whoever we want to. Who told that mysterious official whatever he has said, and what locus standi has anyone but the selection committee have to decide on selections?”
Read the entire piece at The Hindustan Times.
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Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo