3.3 Lakh per month is a big sum!

Forty lakh per year, if Vengsarkar is indeed getting it, is a big sum for writing columns. Worth spurning any honorary job in the World! After all, 3.3 lakh per month is an income which 99.9 per cent of Indian households can only dream of.

The way the things have gone of late, it look unlikely that BCCI will budge form its stand of not paying compensation to Vengsarkar. That will leave the super-selector with just one way out.

Vengsarkar's predecessor Kiran More, in NDTV's Cricket Controversies programme on Sunday, said that if he were in Vengsarkar's place, he would have resigned (rather than offering to resign) after all the controversies including BCCI directive to him to select team on phone. Though he also said that BCCI was not in wrong in asking him not to write columns.

As per media reports, the BCCI is already considering few other names as chief selector, including Borde's. Now the ball is in Vengsarkar's court. With his brief tenure marred by so many mishaps, including run-ins with former skipper Dravid, he must have a quick rethink on where his priorities lie.

Vengsarkar the columnist will surely have a more peaceful life than Vengsarkar the chief selector.

Board's Ring Tone annoys Vengsarkar

If a Television Channel is to be believed then Indian Chief Selector Duleep Vengsarkar has been asked to select Indian team for the 3rd Test after confabulations over phone. It is a move which Vengsarkar says has humiliated him.

But then it is not the first time the Board has insulted the chief selector. BCCI went all out against his newspaper columns and had told him that either he could be a writer or a selector.

If it is done, it will be the first time that a team would be selected over phone. Probably a live link would have been more appropriate in such situation.

Two reasons are said to be responsible for BCCI’s such queer response. First, the Chief Selector had requested the Board to shift the venue for the selection committee meeting, and Board chose to replace it with trin trin. Another reason was the Board did not want selectors to miss Ranji Matches.

Probably, the decision after such Phone(y) selection meeting will be communicated to media through e-mails, and not a formal press conference!