Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar would be able to watch the third and deciding
Test match between India and Pakistan at Bangalore on all
five days following the rescheduling of his meeting with Cricket Board chief Sharad
Pawar to next week.
"Vengsarkar is expected to meet Pawar next week, and it's likely to be on
the 14th (December)," sources close to Vengsarkar said today, a development
which has paved the way for the former India skipper to watch the entire proceedings
of the Test at Bangalore starting tomorrow.
Vengsarkar attended the last selection committee meeting on
Wednesday in Bangalore which picked the team for the final Test and the 24 probables
for the tour of Australia after making up his mind to do so very late
on the eve of the sitting.
He had come back from Kolkata in the middle of the second Test after his demands
for the scrapping of the seven-point guidelines issued to the selectors, that
included a ban on them from writing columns and talking to the media, were not
accepted by the Board.
Vengsarkar, who had to stop his regular newspaper columns following
the Board's diktat, also dashed off a letter to the BCCI stating his
position not to attend the meeting unless his demands were met, but the Board
did not budge from its stand.
Hectic parleys over phone with Pawar on the eve of the selection
meeting, after the board chief's softening of the stand on the issue, enabled
Vengsarkar to make up his mind to proceed to Bangalore and chair the meeting.
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