Srinagar: Fans have reacted strongly to BCCI leaving out rising star pacer Umran Malik from the recently announced Central Contract list for the players.
Fans were furious on social media pointing out that it means Umran Malik isn’t in the plans for the World Cup 2023.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday revealed the Annual Player Contracts list for the Indian cricket team, for the period of October 2022 to September 2023, which includes the T20 World Cup last year to the month right before the ODI World Cup at home this year.
The list comprised of 26 players divided into four pay-scale grades.
Few earned a promotion, few were demoted while as many as seven players have lost their contracts.
The name of Malik missing meant that he is not part of India’s ODI World Cup plan. The Jammu ann Kashmir pacer made his debut in the summer of 2022 after having impressed the selectors and veteran crickets with his performance in IPL. He represented India in 16 white-ball matches, picking 24 wickets, with his last appearance being in the New Zealand series at home earlier in January this year.
Questions were also raised on Dhawan, who has long fallen out of reckoning in Tests and T20Is and last represented India in the ODIs in December 2022 before Shubman Gill replaced him in the India set-up for the World Cup plan.