“Everybody is a cricket expert in India” - BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia amid reports of Gautam Gambhir’s potential sacking

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary, Devajit Saikia, has had his say on the Indian head coach Gautam Gambhir's potential sacking from his position. Notably, there have been multiple reports of Gambhir being removed from his role after India had put up underwhelming results recently.

Speaking to Sportstar, Saikia asserted that in a country like India, everybody is a cricket expert, adding that they cannot gag anybody in a democratic country like India. Furthermore, he noted that each decision goes through several rounds of scrutiny before getting approved. 

“India is a country of 140 crore people and everybody is a cricket expert. Everybody will have an opinion. It is a democratic country, and we cannot gag anybody. All the opinion-makers are free to give their opinions, including the media. There is a lot of speculated news in the domain, and also various ex-cricketers, cricketers, or other people are also giving opinions. In social media, it is full of them," Devajit Saikia said as quoted by Sportstar.

“But the thing is that we have a cricket committee in the BCCI, who are ex-cricketers. They are dedicated and make all the decisions. On the other hand, for team selection, we have five selectors. They also have to qualify to get into that position. They are the people who take that also. For every decision, there can be a counter-opinion. So, those opinions we have to address, and we have to consider. But the final decision is always taken by the cricket committee as well as the selectors," he added.

It has been a rollercoaster ride in the past few months for Gambhir as India lost an ODI series in Australia and were clean-swept by South Africa in a home Test series. Moreover, India suffered an ODI series loss to New Zealand at home recently.

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