Nov 20: Selectors fume over various restrains under the newly laid guidelines issued by BCCI
The five wise men of the senior national selection committee have turned unwise after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) laid down new guidelines for imposing a curb over them, outbreaking a fresh controversy in the mid of an important India-Pakistan series.
The controversy erupted when BCCI issued a gag order against the chairman of selectors, Dilip Vengsarkar, from writing syndicated columns.
It won’t have been blown out into a full-scale confrontation, if the issue was settled to that extent barely, but BCCI incited it by issuing a fresh draft of the rules’ for the selectors, restraining their liberty to a greater level.
BCCI’s GUIDELINES
It’s not that the selectors are being gagged but somewhat they are facing humiliation through this curb. At the outset the chairman was banned from talking to the mediapersons after the team’s selection. Then they have been stopped from writing columns in newspapers and now latest in the least that the board also doesn't want them to accompany the team during foreign tour.
It is also learnt that Chairman of Selectors gave a howling response, which prompted the BCCI to do an alteration on certain guidelines.
"Vengsarkar cited different reasons that why he was writing the column, he connected it with his source of income in response to that email and says he has been writing this column for the last 15 years," said BCCI Vice President Rajiv Shukla.
The matter is getting murkier day by day and it won’t come across that it is going to resolve soon, as it appears. The issue will certainly catch flames in the coming days, since there is a strong buzz in the air that the selectors have threatened to quit from their post.
So keep your fingers crossed, as you can get more out of this action in next few days rather than in an Indo-Pak Test match.
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