The BCCI will seek an explanation from veteran keeper-batter Wriddhiman Saha about his recent outburst targetting the head coach, Rahul Dravid, and the board president Sourav Ganguly. The outburst came to the limelight when Saha was dropped from the Indian team as it feels he violated the protocols for centrally-contracted cricketers. It is learned that Saha, who is group B of central contracts with an annual retainership of ₹3 crores, is in violation of clause 6.3.
The clauses explained, “Player shall not make any comments about the game, officials, incidents that happened in the game, use of technology, selection matters or any other matter related to the game which is in opinion of the BCCI is adverse to and /or not in the interest of the game, team or BCCI in any media…”
The specific comments that Wriddhiman Saha made across media are on his selection and his private conversations with the head coach, chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma and Ganguly.
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On Thursday, BCCI treasurer, Arun Dhumal said, “Yes, there is a possibility that BCCI could ask Wriddhiman as to how he spoke on selection matters being a centrally contracted cricketer.”
The 37-year-old, whose international career has all but ended after he was told by the team management will now be focusing on grooming a younger keeper, has since also made public allegedly “threatening” WhatsApp messages from a journalist without taking names.
Talking about the same, Arun Dhumal said, “As far as the president is concerned, he had tried to motivate him. The board might like to know what made him go public with his dressing room conversations with coach Dravid. We haven’t yet decided on the matter. We are all busy, but a call will be taken in a few days.”
Many in the BCCI believe that Saha shouldn’t have made his conversations with Dravid public as it has dented his image a bit.
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Explaining the same, a senior BCCI official said, “Rahul Dravid said that he is not hurt but wanted to clearly communicate with the player. It’s a private conversation and even if he was hurt, he should have kept quiet. “Dravid became a bigger person as what Saha did was show the head coach in bad light.”
