Mumbai cricket’s senior
selection committee headed by Ajit Agarkar have reportedly submitted their
resignations, after criticism from clubs affiliated to the association over not
watching local matches during the season.
Nilesh
Kulkarni, Sunil More and Ravi Thakkar are the other members of the Agarkar-led
committee.
All
selectors sent separate letters of resignation, citing personal reasons. An
official confirmation is awaited.
Reported
that the resignation was submitted few hours before the MCA’s ad-hoc committee
met in the city on Friday and that the committee had already sought legal
opinion on the issue before it met.
Earlier
this month, the Cricket Improvement Committee of the Mumbai Cricket Association
had offered their support to the senior selection panel before approving the
squad for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Super League that was led by Shreyas Iyer.
Raju
Kulkarni, the former India pacer who is the CIC chairman, was quoted as saying
by the Hindu,
“The CIC felt these cricketers are of great repute and their credentials cannot
be doubted. That is why we have decided unanimously to not remove them.”
A
group of MCA members last month had passed a resolution on sacking the senior
selection panel. According to a report in Mid-Day,
a Special General Meeting which was attended by 79 clubs on February 21, “wanted
the four selectors replaced because according to them, the selectors did not
watch local matches resulting in top performers on the local circuit missing
out on being part of the Mumbai probables at the start of the season.”
After
winning the 50-over domestic tournament (Vijay Hazare Trophy) Mumbai failed to
progress to the knockout stages of the prestigious Ranji Trophy. In the Syed
Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, they were eliminated in the Super League stage.
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