Chetan Sharma, the chief selector for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has decided to resign from his position. Jay Shah, the secretary of the BCCI, received his resignation and accepted it, as per the reports in ANI. After India’s disappointing performance at the T20 World Cup in Australia, Sharma ran into difficulty over a sting operation by ZEE News.
As per the reports of the Indian Express, BCCI asked Chetan Sharma to step down for breaching his contract by divulging team information. Sharma, who was in Kolkata for the Ranji Trophy final, is understood to have decided to resign on Friday morning and it has been accepted immediately by the BCCI.
BCCI chief selector Chetan Sharma resigns from his post. He sent his resignation to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah who accepted it.
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— ANI (@ANI) February 17, 2023
There was nothing controversial in what Chetan Sharma said in the video during the sting operation, but he revealed that Indian players take injections to stay fit. Sharma also had said that former India captain Virat Kohli tried to defame the then BCCI president Sourav Ganguly because he felt the latter was responsible for him losing his ODI captaincy.
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Chetan Sharma had already lost the trust of the Indian team management and the BCCI. There were concerns as to how cricketers will have frank conversations with Sharma as he had shared a few of the discussions with the media.
From there on his position was untenable, especially after he accused a few of the players of taking injections to stay fit. One of the sources of the Indian Express revealed, “It was just a matter of time. Once the players lost the trust, it was always going to be difficult for Sharma to continue.”
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With Sharma’s resignation, the selection panel’s strength has once again come down to four. Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola, S Sharath, and SS Das are the ones in place and all four took charge last month. With not many coming forward to join the panel, the BCCI eventually went back to appointing Sharma as a chairman. And this time his tenure lasted just over a month.
