Ambati Rayudu, as soon as thought of the answer to India’s middle-order woes, was famously ignored for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Despite the lack of opener Shikhar Dhawan due to damage, Rayudu was not chosen. Even after Vijay Shankar’s damage, Rayudu was nonetheless ignored. When India crashed out of the semi-finals, Rayudu introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket.
In a latest interview with TV9 Telugu, Rayudu make clear his World Cup snub and revealed that he and former chief selector MSK Prasad didn’t see eye to eye. Prasad was the chief selector in the course of the 2019 World Cup. Rayudu additionally talked about that he didn’t admire a number of the strategies of the crew captain (Prasad) when he performed for Andhra Pradesh in 2005.
It comes as no shock that Prasad, a former India participant, responded to Rayudu’s allegations.
Speaking to timesnownews.com, he mentioned, “All of us know that the selection committee has got five selectors and the captain sitting in the selection committee. Will any single person’s decision be taken or is it a consensus or is it an entire collective decision that would be taken? If an individual can take a decision then you don’t require five selectors.”
“So any decision that is taken only happens with the consensus of the entire selection committee. So it is a collective decision. Not an individual decision. I may propose something but somebody else has to accept it. No individual decision will prevail in a committee”, he additional added.
Also, reacting to Rayudu’s allegations concerning his Andhra captaincy, Prasad mentioned, “In a team, a small difference can happen during a long cricketing season. There can be a difference of opinion between brothers also. But that cannot be the reason to carry such small differences here and there to such a big platform like Indian cricket team’s selection. Rayudu got selected for Indian Team for all the previous international games prior to the World Cup.”
“When one doesn’t have differences for those matches then how come any difference will come for World Cup selections? I want to clear the air that the selection process is a complete collective decision but it will never be an individual opinion or decision”, he additional added.
Despite his retirement from worldwide cricket in July 2019, Rayudu continued to play within the IPL till lately. However, on May 28 of this yr, he introduced his retirement from the IPL, adopted by his determination to stop all types of Indian cricket on May 29.
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