Determined to ensure that its gag order was not defied, The Cricket Board has
sent a reminder to the national selectors asking them not to write columns in
newspapers as per its constitutional provisions.
"Yes, a message has been sent to the selectors not to write columns,"
said BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah from Rajkot.
Shah's message follows the Board's move to seek an explanation
from Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar on why he continued to write newspaper
columns, including in BCCI Chief's Sharad Pawar's family-owned newspaper "Sakal",
despite a gag order having been put in place.
Asked whether Vengsarkar had replied to that message Shah said
evasively that these things took some time to get sorted out. "You see
these things take some time," he said.
A former selector revealed that as per the constitution of
the Board no selector can lend his name to a newspaper column and expressed
surprise how Vengsarkar was allowed to flout the clause.
"It's all in the constitution. I don't know how he was allowed to write
a column," he said on condition of anonymity.
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