http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Krishnamachari-Srikkanth-c71750 loses his cool, lashes out at reporters – Cricket News Update
Following a selection committee meeting at the at the BCCI headquarters in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 had been excluded from the squad for the upcoming
Asia Cup.
A visibly irritated Srikkanth told reporters to “shut up”, when continuously probed about the reason for Sehwag’s absence from the squad which was announced this Wednesday.
“Boss, you just shut up now. You don't talk like that now... If you throw various googlies at me I will get angry, too … We are talking simple and straight, keep it that way,” he said to a reporter.
Calming down, he proceeded to explain, yet again, that the reason behind Sehwag’s exclusion from the squad was fitness concerns, plain and simple.
“Asking the same question in different ways will not get you a different answer. It is the honest truth … The players have been rested on injury grounds. That is a promise. I cannot show you the medical reports because it is an internal matter,” he explained,
adding that the team physiotherapist had insisted that Sehwag and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 (who is also missing from the line-up) needed rest.
In the initial phases of the informal press conference, the chairman had adopted a defensive stance, and attempted to justify the recent poor outings of the team.
Admitting that the Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 had ended disastrously (India were whitewashed, 0-4), he pointed out that the team’s overall performances in the ongoing tri-series matches had been good. According to him, the only problem had occurred when
the Men In Blue had tied with Sri Lanka in the 5thgame of the series, on February 14 at Adelaide, owing to an umpiring error – a five-ball over bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540.
However, as relentless reporters refused to let him off the hook regarding Sehwag’s exclusion, the chairman lost his composure. Despite this, he was able to wrap up the conference with good grace, and concluded by saying he hoped http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 would be able to win
the finals of the ongoing Commonwealth Bank series.
Other changes to the squad include the exclusion of pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 at Hobart) as vice-captain. The Asia Cup is scheduled to kick off in mid-March, and India’s
first match will be against Sri Lanka on March 13.
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