BCCI reminds selectors not to write columns

Shah8217;s message follows the Board8217;s move to seek an explanation from Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar on why he continued to write newspaper columns, including in BCCI Chief8217;s Sharad Pawar8217;s family-owned newspaper Sakal, despite a gag order having been put in place.

Asked whether Vengsarkar had replied to that message Shah said evasively that these things took some time to get sorted out. 8220;You see these things take some time,8221; he said.

A former selector revealed that as per the constitution of the Board no selector can lend his name to a newspaper column and expressed surprise how Vengsarkar was allowed to flout the clause.

8220;It8217;s all in the constitution. I don8217;t know how he was allowed to write a column,8221; he said on condition of anonymity.