The entirety of the National Selection Committee of the Indian Cricket Board was sacked following India’s embarrassing defeat of 10 wickets against England in the semi-final of the 20-20 World Cup.
Following Chetan Sharma’s led committee sacking, the Board requested applications for national selectors on 18th November 2022. Since then it has received a hoard of requests for the five-member committee for the board to finalise.
Among the 600-plus applications, however, there are many which are fake IDs claiming to be the legends of the game like Sachin Tendulkar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Virender Sehwag and MS Dhoni.
Following the reports of these fake submissions, there has been a buzz on the internet. Many cricket fans have now come out and made their reactions on the intriguing topic.
One user by the name of Shau commented, “Keep Venkatesh prasad away from this post.” Another by the name Ansh Nasta said, “They’ll still be better than the current selectors.”
Let’s look at how the fans reacted to fake applications for the National Selection Committee post:
BCCI has received more than 600 applications for the five-member selection panel including fake ID claiming to be Sachin, Dhoni, Inzamam & Sehwag. (Source – PTI)
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 22, 2022
sirf 600? twitter wale kirket experts ne nhi di kya application
— Sagar Nandal (@SagarNandal14) December 22, 2022
I too applied. Probably the best candidate for the job
— Ranajoy Sen (@ranajoy_sen) December 22, 2022
Dhoni, Sachin and Kohli who applied: pic.twitter.com/nR2tcg7p36
— Rohit.Bishnoi (@The_kafir_boy_2) December 22, 2022
— Vishal Rajput (@Mainvishalh00n) December 22, 2022
Ramiz Raja pic.twitter.com/nsuiiFfIY0
— Hariharan Durairaj ???? (@hariharan_draj) December 22, 2022
keep venkatesh prasad away from this post ?
— Shau (@shxuryaa) December 22, 2022
They'll still be better than the current selectors
— Ansh Nasta (@anshnasta96) December 22, 2022
Those fake IDs were from Sanjay Manjrekar because BCCI won't select him directly ?
— Glen Maxi (@Reddy__B) December 22, 2022
Dinesh Karthik had earlier said that he expected the committee to be sacked. “Very interesting development. I think none of us saw it coming. It is also an opportunity for the new selectors coming in and we have to see how things unfold,” he said.
“I know this word ‘sack’ was used as lot, but I think their term was coming to an end as well. It is a tough job. Picking 15 players from a set of 40-45 players who are all good enough to represent the country it’s not going to be easy. Credit to them. They have done a good job. The new selectors have some strong decisions to take,” he added.
