In recent times, World richest cricket board BCCI has become a laughing stock due to some strange reasons. Few days ago, BCCI had to change the vanue of an upcoming match against New Zealand, as the proposed ground was not up to standard!
Now, BCCI has again in the centre for all wrong reasons. BCCI first named Rajasthan medium pacer Deepak Chahar in the Board President’s XI squad for the warm-up games against New Zealand only to replace him with cousin brother Rahul, who is a leg-spinner.
The BCCI had on Monday sent a release which had Deepak’s name in the BP XI squad, which raised a lot of eyebrows considering he had no performance to get a call for the squad.
It was later realised that the selectors wanted to pick Rahul, who is a current India U-19 player and also did well during the recent colts tour to England. However it is understood that they goofed up with the name which led to the clerical error.
“It was inadvertently mentioned that Deepak Chahar would represent the Board Presidents XI team for the warm-up matches against New Zealand ahead of their ODI series against India. Rahul Chahar will feature in the squad that will play two matches at CCI in Mumbai,” BCCI admitted the error in a media release.
In another embarrassing incident, The official Twitter handle of the BCCI on Thursday made a major goof-up just few moments before the start of the fourth ODI between India and Australia at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
In that match, Australia captain Steve Smith won the toss and elected to bat.
But, on the BCCI’s official handle, Instead of the 4th ODI, the caption read — “1st Twenty20. Australia won the toss and elect to bat’. The
“Welcome to the 1st T20I between India and Australia #INDvAUS #TeamIndia,” the first post read.
“1st Twenty20: Australia win toss and elect to bat #INDvAUS #TeamIndia,” the second post read.
