The Delhi and District Cricket Association’s (DDCA) director (cricket) Sanjay Bhardwaj has written to the ombudsman/ethics officer justice (retd) Badar Durrez Ahmed alleging that appointment of members of the Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC) and selectors was in violation of Conflict of Interest norms.
In his letter to the DDCA ombudsman, Bhardwaj has alleged that former India opener Virender Sehwag, who is part of the three-member CIC, runs cricket academies and that Sehwag is also the cricket operations chief of IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Sehwag is an expert on India TV, a channel of which DDCA president Rajat Sharma is the editor-in-chief. The DDCA director also questioned the appointment of former Delhi all-rounder Mayank Tehlan to the junior selection committee. Tehlan, according to Bhardwaj, is the cousin of Sehwag.
Bhardwaj has also written to the ombudsman stating that the appointments of both Aakash Chopra and Rahul Sanghvi, former cricketers, are in violation of conflict of interest norms. Chopra runs cricket academies, while Sanghvi is engaged with Mumbai Indians (team manager), Bhardwaj’s letter states.
“I wrote to the ombudsman a week ago but I have not got a reply yet,” Bhardwaj said.
