Ajit Agarkar ‘s tenure as the selection committee chief of the men’s national team has come to an end, but there’s a lot that seems to have happened behind-the-scenes before his exit was formalised. a report has claimed that Agarkar was given a free hand by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to overhaul the national team after veterans Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket While many speculations are going around on social media. But, in the middle of this process, a few things seem to have gone wrong.
After Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s Test retirements, Ajit Agarkar was reportedly given a free hand by BCCI to setup the men’s national team as he likes.
The BCCI wanted him to go slow on Rohit’s future while he felt that if Yashasvi Jaiswal had to play the ODI World Cup, he has to be given around 20 ODIs to settle down. It has been reported by The Telegraph , BCCI gave Agarkar the license to make some bold calls in the team, including the Test retirements of Rohit and Kohli. He understood that going forward, the call on big names won’t be his prerogative,” a senior BCCI official privy to development told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
he himself was in charge of the selection committee that dropped T20 World Cup-winning skipper Suryakumar Yadav from the T20I team While Agarkar said that it was their own personal call. When BCCI officially “issued” a statement backing Rohit and dismissing talks of his retirement post Lord’s, he was left slighted and angry, according to a report in PTI. Agarkar was expected to pen a one-year contract extension and remain in charge till the ODI World Cup next year. However, the plans took a U-turn and an extension went out of picture. “That was perhaps the day when Ajit knew that it would be very difficult for him to continue. In fact, he had no inkling that a media statement was issued by the BCCI.
