Chetan Sharma in the eye of storm after ‘sting operation’; details here

The Chairman of the Senior Selection Committee of males’s cricket Chetan Sharma was caught in an issue on Tuesday after he revealed categorised choice issues throughout a sting operation carried out by a TV channel.

Sharma allegedly mentioned that former Indian Captain Virat Kohli tried to defame then BCCI President Saurav Ganguly as he felt Ganguly was liable for him dropping the ODI captaincy. Sharma mentioned that the tussle between Kohli and Ganguly is the case of “two egos clashing”.

“Virat Kohli felt he lost the captaincy because of the BCCI president. There were nine people in the selection committee video conference, Ganguly told him ‘think about it once’. I think Kohli didn’t hear it, there were nine others there including myself and all other selectors, BCCI officials,” he might be seen saying in the video.

“Two egos clashing, one who is thinking that Ganguly has removed me from the captaincy, so I will teach him a lesson. He (Virat) gave a statement that Ganguly is doing this, basically to defame him. He (Virat) tried to tell this in the media…which backfired on him (Virat),” he mentioned.

Sharma, who was lately reinstated by the BCCI after being eliminated following India’s displaying in the T20 World Cup in Australia, was seen throughout the sting operation casting aspersions on gamers like Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah.

Sharma additionally allegedly revealed his inner discussions with Head Coach Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli throughout the sting carried out by Zee News. He mentioned that loads of gamers take injections to expedite their return to aggressive cricket regardless of being 80 to 85 per cent match.

He added that there was a distinction of opinion between him and the workforce administration over Bumrah’s return from a stress fracture for the T20I sequence in opposition to Australia in September.

Bumrah nonetheless continues to be out of motion, and can possible miss the complete four-Test Border-Gavaskar sequence and the three-match ODI sequence after that.

He added that present T20 captain Hardik Pandya involves his place to talk to him typically about his future.

News company PTI reported that the BCCI is wanting into the matter, as nationwide selectors are sure by contract and never supposed to talk to the media.

“It will be (BCCI secretary) Jay’s (Shah) call as to what will be Chetan’s future. The question is whether T20 skipper Hardik Pandya or ODI and Test captain Rohit Sharma would like to sit with Chetan in a selection meeting knowing that he has let out internal discussions,” a senior BCCI official instructed PTI on situations of anonymity.

(With company inputs)