The Mumbai Cricket Association will not take any action against India discard Ajit Agarkar for returning home in a huff after being dropped from the Mumbai team against Orissa in the Ranji Trophy Elite match at Cuttack as he had taken permission to do so.
Published: Nov 30, 2011, 03:25 PM (IST)
Edited: Nov 30, 2011, 03:25 PM (IST)
Ajit Agarkar returned home during Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy match against Orissa after he was not selected in the final XI © Getty Images
Mumbai: Nov 30, 2011
The Mumbai Cricket Association will not take any action against India discard Ajit Agarkar for returning home in a huff after being dropped from the Mumbai team against Orissa in the Ranji Trophy Elite match at Cuttack as he had taken permission to do so.
“No action is being contemplated against Agarkar who sought my permission to return home yesterday and I, in turn, asked Mumbai selection panel chairman (Milind Rege). Rege felt Ajit did not feel comfortable sitting in the reserves and can be permitted,” MCA joint secretary Nitin Dalal told PTI.
Agarkar, who had returned to the Mumbai squad for the previous game against Karnataka after missing the first two ties due to injury, was left out after the team management decided to include Avishkar Salvi and Dhawal Kulkarni as the support seamers for Zaheer Khan who is testing his match fitness ahead of the tour to Australia.
“Agarkar was feeling humiliated after he was dropped for the match by the team management. He was an India player and we felt it would be better if he is allowed to return home instead of staying back with the team,” Dalal added.
Dalal also said the MCA officials will ask the team management and Agarkar to sit together with them and thrash out the differences after the squad returns.
“We would sit with them and discuss the issue. He is available for selection for the next match (against Saurashtra at Rajkot from Dec 6-9),” Dalal added. (PTI)
