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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
appears to have made an inadvertent error about the Chetan Sakariya incident,
as the left-arm pacer is not included on the list of bowlers who have been
reported for questionable behaviour. The bowler from Saurashtra was reportedly
at the top of a list of bowlers who had been “reported but not
banned.” The course correction will now be carried out by the BCCI.
When this website contacted the state cricket
association, the Saurashtra team management, and people who knew the
25-year-old left-arm bowler, they all expressed surprise. Officials from the
Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) then contacted the BCCI. Later, it was
discovered that a player from the south zone by the same name, Chetan, was
intended to be on that suspect list.
“It was a sort of miscommunication and error, and
Chetan has never been called, and he is not on that list. I understand that the
name of a Karnataka bowler should have been there, and the IPL is addressing
the issue. The franchises are also being duly informed,” Jaydev Shah, the
president of SCA, told on Saturday (December 16).
With a base price of Rs 50 lakh, Chetan, who was just
released by the Delhi Capitals, is ranked 27th on the auction roster. The
bowler from Karnataka is not listed in the final auction.
Sakariya is among the few domestic icons on the list,
along with Arpit Guleria of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, Saurabh
Dubey of the Vidarbha Cricket Association, Chirag Gandhi of the Gujarat Cricket
Association, Tanush Kotian of the Mumbai Cricket Association, Rohan Kunnummal
of the Kerala Cricket Association, and Salman Nizar of the Kerala Cricket
Association. Furthermore, bowling bans have been imposed on Manish Pandey and
KL Shrijith of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA).