Chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar could be set to defy the Board yet again, and is likely to get another of his articles in his column published in Marathi daily Sakal tomorrow. Vengsarkar has already been asked by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to abstain from writing. “We do not have a problem, and it is an issue between the BCCI and the selectors. We will continue with the column as scheduled,” Anand Aghashe, Sakal editor said. Vengsarkar has been a regular columnist for the daily, and definitely doesn’t seem to be perturbed by the BCCI’s so called ‘gag’ on selectors, asking them not to write newspaper columns or speak to the media. The chairman, in fact, went a step further and gave an interview to a Mumbai daily which appeared this morning. It is being held here that Vengsarkar has the permission of none other than BCCI president Sharad Pawar to go ahead with his columns, also keeping in mind the fact that it is the Board supremo’s brother Ajit who runs the Marathi daily. None of the BCCI officials, who have been talking loud about the fact that the selectors should restrict themselves from writing and who have put a blanket ban on their talking to the media, were available for comment.
