Controversy refuses to leave the Bangalore Royal Challengers. First, team owner Vijay Mallya sacked the team's chief executive Charu Sharma. Now, Mallya has taken potshots at team captain Rahul Dravid.
Mallya was quoted by a national daily as saying, "My biggest mistake was to abstain from the selection of the team. Though, I watch a lot of cricket whenever possible, I am no cricket expert at the end of the day."
"I had a separate list of players that I wanted. But since Dravid is such an iconic player I trusted his judgment. And Charu Sharma also backed him. After seeing the final list, my friends told me it looked like a Test team. But I backed both of them thinking that they advised me properly," Mallya added.
Meanwhile, Sharma also broke his silence after an early exit from the Bangalore IPL team.
Mallya's outburst was undoubtedly in the offing given the Royal Challengers' poor progress in IPL.
Bangalore's emphasis on Test performers was questioned before the start of the tournament, and their inability to adapt to the Twenty20 format has seen the side crash to six defeats in eight games, leaving them languishing at the bottom of the table.
The Bangalore franchise of the IPL was bought by Mallya's United Spirits Ltd for $111.6 million, making it the second-most expensive franchise in the IPL.
1 comments:
There is no point in mallayas worrying about his ipl team selection.Only problem they are facing is that the batsman not clicking at the right time.they have camroon white who was the highest scorer in 20/20 beofore mcullum,but unfortunately he didnt bat to his potentail,like that the same case for boucher,rose taylor,kallis.
nothing wrong in team selection its only the bad luck i can say.In20/20 u need little luck mr.Mallaya like rajasthan tem enjoying,if everything goes well captain will always get credit if it gone wrong then he will be made scapegoat ,it happens
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