Rahul Dravid to attend Junior selection committee meeting to choose teams for UK tour
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For the first time in a while, a coach is officially attending a BCCI selection meeting as Rahul Dravid has been named as a 'special invitee' for the meeting in New Delhi slated to pick the team for the UK tour. In India, the coach and captain officially donât have a vote in the team selection.
Dravid is known to be the 'unofficial' go-to-man of India's senior national selection committee when it comes to providing the national team with the perfect bench strength, but he has never interfered with the selection procedure. However, for the first time in a while, a coach is officially attending a BCCI selection meeting.
Gyanendra Pandey, Rakesh Parikh, Debashish Mohanty, and Amit Sharma will attend the meeting along with Dravid and selection committee chairman Aashish Kapoor so as to pick the team for the one-day triangular series that will also have U-19 teams from England and Bangladesh.
This has become an interesting scenario as the coach and captain donât have a vote in team selection at present as per the BCCI constitution. Even before the national senior selection committee formed the team for the World Cup, Ravi Shastri had made it clear that he didn't get involved in selection matters as he didn't have a vote. However, Virat Kohli was a part of the team meeting.Â
"You have a chat with the captain but like I said we don't get involved in the selection and what is the point getting involved. You don't have a vote. So why go there and just tom-tom away about anything. Selectors have a job to do and they picked 15. And now it is my job with the team management," he had said.
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