Passi inducted, blackmail in DDCA continues

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.