‘Picked KL Rahul after 8 months gap, didn’t pick domestic performers’ – Reasons why BCCI fired Chetan Sharma-led selection committee

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sacked the selection committee after Team India’s humiliating loss against England in the T20 World Cup.

The Chetan Sharma-led selection committee had made some weird decisions that had led to speculations about them being fired.

Multiple reasons led to the sacking of the selection committee

Team India failed to reach the knock-out stage in the 2021 edition of the T20 World Cup and lost the World Test Championships final. All eyes were then placed on India’s performance in the 2022 T20 World Cup and just as they lost in the semifinals, curtains were drawn on the selection committee.

The selection committee made some unusual changes before both T20 World Cups. As per the reports, multiple reasons led to the downfall of the selection committee. Some of them were not being able to have a settled squad, allowing eight international captains in just one year with some select seniors turning workload management into a joke, picking KL Rahul after an eight month’s hiatus from T20 cricket, going on almost each and every India tour but not being able to create a decisive set of players in coordination with team management.

“For Chetan to save his job, India needed to win the T20 World Cup. Nothing less could have saved him. But once, he was asked to select four squads at one go (New Zealand and Bangladesh away series) which was unprecedented, one could read between the lines,” a BCCI insider told PTI.

The Chetan Sharma-led selection committee has had the shortest stint as senior national selectors in recent times. The ODI World Cup is scheduled for October-November and the BCCI must be looking for some solid plans ahead of the World Cup. The new selection committee chairman will be given the responsibility to choose captains across the three formats.

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The focus could also shift to selecting domestic performers rather than making selections on the basis of a handful of IPL performances or selections on the basis of past records. After losing the T20 World Cup final the focus will completely shift toward the ODI World Cup.