‘Nirlaj tu phir aa gaaya’ – Fans fume in anger as Chetan Sharma gets reappointed as selection committee chairman
In a major development, Chetan Sharma has been reappointed as Chief Selector of the Indian Cricket Board and will also continue as the chairman of the selection panel. The Board has surprisingly shown faith in Chetan after he was sacked following India’s 20- 20 World debacle in 2022 against England where they suffered a shock exit. This puts Indian Cricket in a shaky state because it is indicating that the sacking of Chetan earlier was just an eyewash and was merely done for the sake of it.
The new selection panel will consist of Shiv Sundar Das, Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola and Shridharan Sharath as the selectors. They were selected by the three-member cricket advisory committee consisting of Jatin Paranjpee, Sulakshana Naik and Ashok Malhotra.
This comes at a time when 2022 was a year to forget for the Indian Men’s Cricket Team as they crashed out of the Asia Cup in 2022 and lost to Sri Lanka and Pakistan. They did not end the 20-20 World Cup on a good note and also lost their last two ODI series at the end of 2022 against New Zealand and Bangladesh.
The move of reappointing Chetan indicates that the board has not learnt from its past mistakes. There were some questionable calls made during Chetan’s tenure such as not playing Yuzvendra Chahal despite naming him in the squad.
India had the likes of Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya and regular white ball skipper Rohit Sharma led the side at different intervals as Rohit had fitness and injury issues. It feels that the board is not looking to change things and is repeating the same mistakes as it had done earlier.
India also crashed out of the World Cup in 2021 after defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand. They have not been able to break their trophy drought in World events as an elusive World Trophy has evaded them since 2013. It remains to be seen how the new selection panel performs under Chetan yet again. Twitter was frustrated, let us take a look at the reactions here-
Sorry but not a single great name in list. India has great schin, Kapil dev and Ms Dhoni and many other And this is there selection committee. If we leave chetan Sharma which is not even very big name no one knows other 4 member of committee
— Umair Shehbaz (@ShehbazUmair) January 7, 2023
https://twitter.com/NotTheDarkBlade/status/1611692561797906432?s=20&t=cW-XEWsU8c65G7rtYvwCBg
Indian team is never going to dominate World Cricket if they continue to reward non performing assets (Rohit Sharma, Rahul Dravid, Chetan Sharma). Last 18 months for India's men team has been horrendous!
— RAHUL (@GentlemanlyVibe) January 7, 2023
Chetan Sharma staying and the others being replaced looks absurd. The Chairman has to be the most accountable of the lot and it made sense to start afresh. No clue what's the logic behind this. Will there be PCs addressing selections now at least though? #CricketTwitter
— Soorya Sesha (@sooryasesha7) January 7, 2023
Chetan Sharma 🙃 pic.twitter.com/7X7n404gUe
— Happy (@oyehappy) January 7, 2023
What a joke !! You fire this guy Chetan Sharma only to reinstate him with full honours in no time. BCCI really thinks this joker did a good job with selections in the last year or so ?
— Amritpal Singh Cheema (@amrit1123) January 7, 2023
BCCI doing better than most comedy flicks.They fired Chetan Sharma post WC,went through “expensive”selection process & then re-hired the same man again. What a joke.If you appoint same person again then what’s the point of sacking & calls for applications.#BCCISelectionCommittee
— ✨𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓲𝓽𝓪✨ (@BanarasiChhori9) January 7, 2023
https://twitter.com/sandeep2c/status/1611697309167026176?s=20&t=cW-XEWsU8c65G7rtYvwCBg
That's very cruel for team India and for team India fans. Chetan Sharma should be removed as chief selector
— Sourav Chaudhury (@SouravChaudhur5) January 7, 2023
Chetan Sharma to chief selector post 🙂 pic.twitter.com/Oz2TmPMfUc
— ꧁Ɽł₮HVł₭ ࿐💖💙 (@RRithvik_18) January 7, 2023
Sridharsn Sharath was in the junior cricket set up for a while now. His promotion is logical. I really don't know abt others. Chetan Sharma being retained is peak clownery.
— Srinivas R (@srini_r_twit) January 7, 2023
PAK have Shahid Afridi as chief selector whereas India have Chetan Sharma.
Talk about just levels, leave the results we got in his previous tenure behind.— Tweeter (@ImShivaji) January 7, 2023
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