Former India cricketer Yograj Singh has lashed out on the BCCI selectors of the early 2010s, accusing them of mismanaging the careers of a number of senior gamers within the aftermath of India’s 2011 World Cup triumph. Talking in a current interview with InsideSport, Yograj claimed that as many as seven outstanding gamers had been “pushed into the gutter” following India’s disastrous abroad Take a look at excursions in England and Australia in 2011–12. “You destroyed these boys for no motive,” he mentioned, naming key figures from the World Cup-winning squad who had been sidelined: Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Mohammed Kaif, VVS Laxman, and Rahul Dravid. Whereas Dravid and Laxman retired from Take a look at cricket quickly after, the remaining had been steadily phased out throughout codecs and weren’t a part of India’s 2015 World Cup plans. Yograj additionally recalled the turmoil surrounding MS Dhoni’s captaincy throughout this era. In accordance with him, the choice committee, together with former cricketer Mohinder Amarnath, had agreed to take away Dhoni as skipper following India’s 0-4 whitewash in Australia. Nevertheless, the choice was allegedly blocked by then BCCI President N. Srinivasan.
Amarnath, in a 2012 interview with CNN-IBN, had confirmed that the selectors weren’t allowed to behave independently and expressed frustration over not being given a free hand to make choices in the perfect curiosity of Indian cricket. Regardless of the interior strain, Dhoni remained captain in Checks till the tip of 2014 and continued to steer India in limited-overs cricket till January 2017, after which Virat Kohli took over.
