BCCI chief selector Chetan Sharma was caught in a debate on Tuesday after he allegedly revealed internal selection matters during a sting operation conducted by a television channel. Sharma was lately reinstated by the BCCI after being removed. It was following India’s caching in the T20 World Cup in Australia and was seen during the sting operation casting aspersions on players like Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah.
Sharma also allegedly revealed his internal conversations with head trainers Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli during the sting conducted by Zee News. Chetan Sharma contended that a lot of players take injections to expedite their return to competitive justice despite being 80 to 85 percent fit. The former India pace bowler also contended that there was a difference of opinion between him and the platoon operation over Bumrah’s return from a stress fracture for the T20I series against Australia in September. (Read Also: Sania Mirza to be the Mentor of RCB Women’s team for WPL 2023)
Bumrah continues to be out of action, and will probably miss the entire four-Test Border- Gavaskar series and the three-match ODI series after that. Sharma also contended that there was a pride hassle between former captain Kohli and former BCCI chairman Sourav Ganguly. Sharma was unapproachable for comment when communicated by PTI. It’s learned that the BCCI is looking into the matter, as public pickers are bound by contract and not supposed to speak to the media. “It’ll be Jay Shah’s call as to what will be Chetan’s future.
The question is whether T20 skipper Hardik Pandya or ODI and Test captain Rohit Sharma would like to sit with Chetan in a selection meeting knowing that he has let out internal conversations,” an elderly BCCI functionary told PTI on conditions of obscurity.
