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| Selection of Ranji team puts a question mark over the wisdom of JKCA administrators, selectors | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 31: After a very poor show by J&K state team in Mushtaq Ali T-20 North Zone cricket tournament, the administrators and so called selectors of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) rather than considering the talented youngsters have once again picked some non-performers, which simply puts a question mark over their wisdom. Selecting the team without deserving candidates has proved that disputable (with regard to their nomination by JKCA) selectors are not in a position to pick an indisputable team. Moreover, what shell-shocks one is the fact that the team, as per the custom in JKCA, has been selected just one day before the commencement of the tournament, least caring about the mindset of the players.
This statement was aired by a few Ranji trophy players and coaches while talking to Newspoint and expressing their anonymity over the involvement of favouritism and may be the nepotism in selecting state Ranji trophy team.
“No-doubt, you can not compare the performance of T-20 matches with the 4-day matches, yet the domestic as well as the performance in all formats of the shortest version of the game should have been considered in picking the T-20 team which was hardly a scene,” said a senior cricketer.
It is pertinent to mention here that last year’s top run getter from the state in CK Nayudu U-22 tournament as also the consistent scorer in all the four matches in T-20 tournament organised by Kings XI Punjab, a season before, Parvez Rasool has neither been considered for the shortest version of the game nor for the test matches but has been named skipper of the under-22 team, to make way for favourite players of the selectors and the office bearers. He is among very few players in the state who possesses almost all that is required to blossom at the highest level. Keeping him away from the Ranji trophy team is unquestionably a blunder on the part of JKCA. However, JKCA after selecting T-20 team for this season had defended their selection by saying that the team was picked on the basis of performance in Jammu-Kashmir Premier League (JKPL). But, by going into the philosophy of the selection process, one observed that the highest scorer from this region in JKPL was not picked in the party to make way for some favourite player just to fit the bill. What is the criteria for getting selectors nod in JKCA still remains unknown. For that matter, to expect miracles from the state team in absence of the better performers is to cry for the moon.
Anyway, there are still many questions which remain to be answered. Why the members of Central Secretariat of JKCA, time and again, fail to fulfill their promises? Is Dr Farooq Abdullah, the president of JKCA unaware of the facts? Are those clubs whose members are not in the present quorum of JKCA not affiliated units of the association? Are the selectors who have not been nominated by the working committee legitimate? Is nobody answerable to anybody for dismal show of the state teams? Whether JKCA constitution is preserved or thrown into the winds? When JKCA learns to select teams in time like the cricket associations of other states?
All these questions need to be answered and the only way to get the answers is the intervention of the president of JKCA. He needs to harness his energy and dynamism to set the things right in JKCA. Lets hope noble sense prevails all around.
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