Previous India opener Aakash Chopra denied nepotism remaining rampant in the best amounts of Indian cricket but claimed that there have been conditions when it has occurred in the reduce degrees of domestic cricket.
Akash Chopra denies nepotism in Indian cricket
“I have viewed it going on in a point out workforce where a player was a captain for a extensive time. He was an administrator’s son, not a player’s. He was not a quite great participant and his stats also show it. But at the optimum degree, it never takes place. No just one is given an IPL deal since he is someone’s friend’s son or someone’s nephew,” Aakash explained on his Youtube present AakashVani.
He took the illustrations of Rohan Gavaskar and Arjun Tendulkar, who are sons of batting greats Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar respectively.
“Now just because he was Sunil Gavaskar’s son he should have played a large amount of cricket, a lot of ODIs and Exam matches. But that did not take place.
“And when he performed for India, it was for the reason that he was continually carrying out incredibly perfectly for Bengal. In simple fact, forget all that, he was even not participating in in the Mumbai Ranji workforce. He was not acquiring a location in the Mumbai crew even nevertheless he had the surname as Gavaskar,” Chopra said.
Gavaskar performed 11 ODI matches for India in which he scored 151 operates. On the other hand, he played 117 initial-course game titles and scored 6938 runs at an average of 44.19.
“You can say the same thing about Arjun Tendulkar. Since he is Tendulkar’s son, very little was given to him on a platter. He failed to get an effortless accessibility to the Indian cricket staff. There have been no these ineffective alternatives even in the India underneath-19 workforce. Any time the range comes about, it would be for the reason that of a sterling efficiency,” Chopra stated about the Indian cricket crew.
