That's selectors' call: Ganguly on no replacement for injured Gill in England
Sourav Ganguly justifies BCCI’s decision to shift IPL 2021, T20 World Cup 2021 to UAE
The Indian team management on June 28, through administrative manager Girish Dongre, had requested for two openers as replacement, preferably Prithvi Shaw and Devdutt Padikkal. But chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma, till a couple of days back, hadn’t sent any formal reply to that mail as four openers are already in the UK.
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When asked about the contentious issue, Ganguly, while addressing reporters on his 49th birthday on Thursday, said: “That’s selectors’ call.”
Both Shaw and Padikkal are currently in Sri Lanka with India’s white-ball squad under Shikhar Dahwan for a six-match series. Under regular skipper Virat Kohli, India is set to play a five-match Test series against England, starting August 4. The red-ball battle is also the first series of the second cycle of World Test Championship (WTC) 2021-23.
Ganguly expressed optimism about hosting the suspended leg of this year’s IPL in the UAE in September. “Nothing will happen we will manage. It will start in september we will chalk out the nitty-gritties,” he told reporters here.
