As this
sports committee’s tenure comes to an end, there is a look of desperation on a
lot of faces. On Sunday, the day the team for National T20 knockouts was
announced, the father of Saurabh Passi reportedly broke the glass panel of the
bar at the Ferozeshah Kotla in rage. His lament was that his son hasn’t been
picked in the side for the T20 knockouts that are now taking place in West Zone.
The sports
committee members hauled up the chairman of selectors, Chetan Chauhan, and also
another selector. On Wednesday, a release from the sports committee boss Ahmed
Tameem said that Passi has been included. The issue goes on to show how the
current committee is being exploited by people who provided it with support. In
such an instance can Delhi cricket prosper.
Also, the Delhi
state team that is playing in Mumbai and lost its first two games to weak teams
is a depleted squad. The top players have joined their IPL teams’ camps and have
therefore excused themselves from the National T20s from Syed Mushtaq Ali
Trophy. As Delhi skipper Gautam Gambhir, who has joined the KKR camp, recently
put it, “It is the BCCI that has to think about rescheduling it.”
Well, the
BCCI had already rescheduled it once before and now they have to do it again.
It seems the board has too much cricket on its plate.
