"If An Individual Can Take A Decision Then You Don’t Require Five Selectors" - MSK Prasad's Indirect Take On Ambati Rayudu's Non-Selection

Indian cricket team’s formidable middle order batter Ambati Rayudu surprisingly wasn’t a part of ODI WC 2019. Ambati Rayudu‘s exclusion shocked everyone as the batter was replaced by the inexperienced Vijay Shankar.

Vijay Shankar was introduced into the squad and termed a 3D player. Later Ambati Rayudu posted a message on the social media handle and made a statement that ‘just ordered 3d glasses for WC.’

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Vijay Shankar got injured in the net session and Rishabh Pant was called up as a replacement. It won’t be wrong to say that there were some differences between the selection panel and Ambati Rayudu as a player of Rayudu’s stature was getting ignored even when Vijay Shankar got injured.

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All of us know that the selection panel has got 5 selectors… – MSK Prasad

MSK Prasad was having an interaction with Timesnownews.com and made it clear that a decision (Ambati Rayudu’s non-selection) can’t be taken by a single person and has to be taken by the entire selection committee.

“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?,” said MSK Prasad.

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“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,” he stated.

“Not an individual decision. I may propose something but somebody else has to accept it. No individual decision will prevail in a committee,” he added.

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In a team, small differences can happen during a long cricketing season- MSK Prasad

MSK Prasad though didn’t deny that small differences can happen in a long cricketing season but stated that isn’t applicable to a big platform like the Indian cricket team’s selection.

“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 the Indian cricket team’s selection. Rayudu got selected for Indian Team for all the previous international games prior to the World Cup,” said MSK Prasad.

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“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 added.

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