BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia recently explained how conditional selections are made and why the conditions attached to the selections of Jasprit Bumrah and Sai Sudharsan were not met by the rules. He said that as India are all set to take on Sri Lanka in the two-match away Test series and they won’t get the service of their key pacer Bumrah and the No.3 batter Sudharsan as well.

“We basically have our selection meetings at least three to four weeks before the team departs. So therefore, three weeks before or four weeks before, we do not know the exact status of the player. Therefore, that asterisk subject to fitness is given because that particular player is under a program of rehabilitation,” Saikia said.

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“So if he gets fit within the period of 21 days or 28 days, he will be taken into the team. We do not outrightly reject him, because [he’s not fit] on the date of selection. But by the time he will be effectively required to travel or to play the match, by that time, he may be totally fit. So in that situation, we always keep subject to fitness. So we do not deprive the player also,” he again shared.

“And this is very uncertain that within 21 days, he will get picked or not. Nobody can predict that, and as VVS has rightly said, it is a human body. It is not a machine. So he may take 14 days’ time or he may take 28 days’ time [to fully recover] subject to his own body composition,” Devajit Saikia concluded.