Sacked selectors Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe still being paid by BCCI

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is still paying the selectors sacked in January this year as compensation. The national selectors Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe have been earning the same amount as the current panel led by MSK Prasad are earning despite not being the part of the committee this year. However, the reason for this is the absence of termination letter from the board itself.

Both of them were removed from the position for not being Test cricketers as per the requirement set by the Lodha panel. Even the selectors at the junior level, Ashish Kapoor and Amit Sharma are being fully paid as per contract. Also, there was no exit clause mentioned in the contract and the board is bound to pay them until it expires. Even all these former selectors now have refused to take up any other role to avoid conflict of interest issue.

Who’s to be blamed?

The senior official of BCCI cleared that the sacked selectors will continue getting paid contractually for doing nothing. “Look at the irony. Three selectors are working and getting paid while the other two, who were sacked in January itself by COA to abide by Justice Lodha recommendation of trimming the selection panel to three from five, are being paid the same amount for doing nothing. There’s no exit clause in the contract and the selectors should be compensated for the rest of their contract period,” he said on Sunday.

Also the treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary blamed the CEO of BCCI Rahul Johri for hastily removing them without looking to the rule book of the board. “It was not in CEO’s jurisdiction to sack selectors when AGM had appointed them at that time,” he wrote to COA according to DNA India. “They have (selectors) never been handed any termination letter by BCCI. So, their contracts offered by BCCI AGM last September are still very much valid in this case,” the source cleared the confusion.