Ex-selector lambasts Sourav Ganguly for attending team meetings

Former India skipper and current BCCI President Sourav Ganguly is in the news again for every one of some unacceptable reasons.

Not long back, he and Virat Kohli were in constant disagreement because of terminating of Kohli from ODI captaincy.

There have been allegations laid on Ganguly that he has say over team selections and that he sits in the meetings of the selection panel.

A former BCCI selector has asserted that board president Sourav Ganguly routinely goes to team selection meetings despite the fact that the rules propose in any case.

According to the constitution of the BCCI, the board president plays no part in selection meetings; although, a report written by the Indian Express on Friday has cited a few former individuals from the selection committee said that Ganguly was present during all selection committee meetings.

“Because of his stature and position, no one could object. It made many committee members uncomfortable and guarded in expressing their opinion,” the selector told Indian Express.

The segment became exposed following the disturbance in Indian cricket, most unequivocally during the Virat Kohli-Sourav Ganguly saga that happened in December last year.

Before long, an image of Ganguly and a few individuals from the selection committee were sitting together alongside Kohli and Rohit Sharma, in 2019 began doing the rounds, carrying out that Ganguly is a part for these meetings.

Selectors, who have not been named in the report, have conceded that Ganguly regularly logged in for the meetings and no one protested realizing he was the president. They likewise said that his presence made individuals from the determination board of selectors feel awkward and that it indirectly affected the selections.