The Surfer

The same old selection story?

Ashish Magotra, writing in the Mumbai Mirror , feels the BCCI’s new selectors - the first set to be paid - have done nothing different compared to their predecessors as they head into their first meeting.

Ashish Magotra, writing in the Mumbai Mirror, feels the BCCI’s new selectors - the first set to be paid - have done nothing different compared to their predecessors as they head into their first meeting.

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For selectors, who are going to get paid 25 lakhs a year, they need to much more than just a ‘basic’ idea of what they are getting into.

In no way does the mode of preparation of these new selectors differ from their predecessors. In fact, if anything, they have watched even lesser cricket, so how do we trust their selectorial instincts?

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Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo