Ambati Rayudu announced his retirement from all forms of cricket this year after his IPL team Chennai Super Kings won their 5th title by defeating Gujarat Titans in the summit clash. The cricketer had announced his IPL retirement in 2022 as well. However, Rayudu deleted this tweet after he was picked to play again for CSK.
Nevertheless, he stands retired now. Thus, Rayudu has got time to look back on his career and when talked about his career, the 2019 World Cup snub pops up immediately. Recently, Ambati Rayudu opened up about his exclusion from the 2019 ODI world cup squad and how he was mentally hurt by that.
All-rounder Vijay Shankar was picked ahead of him in the squad. He claimed that he was not picked in the squad because of his differences with MSK Prasad who was the chief selector at that time.
MSK Prasad takes on Ambati Rayudu
In response to these allegations of Ambati Rayudu, MSK Prasad cleared the air in an interview about what goes behind making a decision in the selection committee and that it is always a collective call.
“All of us know that the selection committee has got five selectors and the captain sitting in the selection committee. Will any single person’s decision be taken or is it a consensus or is it an entire collective decision that would be taken? If an individual can take a decision, then you don’t require five selectors,” MSK Prasad said in his interview with Times Now
“So, any decision that is taken only happens with the consensus of the entire selection committee. So, it is a collective decision. Not an individual decision. I may propose something but somebody else has to accept it. No individual decision will prevail in a committee.”
MSK Prasad rubbished Ambati Rayudu’s claims about personal bias
Ambati Rayudu (L), Vijay Shankar (R) (Image via Times Now)Ambati Rayudu also slammed the ex-chief selector’s captaincy methods during his tenure in Andhra Pradesh Ranji Team in 2005 and how that hampered his career. In response to that, Prasad said Rayudu not liking his captaincy method was fair but he held no personal bias against him during the world cup squad selection.
“In a team, a small difference can happen during a long cricketing season. There can be a difference of opinion between brothers also. But that cannot be the reason to carry such small differences here and there to such a big platform like the Indian cricket team’s selection.“
It’s worth mentioning that Vijay Shankar had gone on to deliver an underwhelming performance as India’s number 4 at the ODI World Cup, sparking up further debate around his selection.
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