tBlog - Kumble Warned for revealing selection details.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has mildly censured India's Test captain Anil Kumble for revealing what transpired in a selection meeting. Selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar was unhappy with certain comments that Kumble made to a Mumbai tabloid.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said that while the captain of the team can address press conferences, he was not supposed to reveal details of selection matters. "The captain cannot tell the media what has taken place at selection committee meetings and on selection policies. And that's the reason a letter has been sent to him by the BCCI," Shah said.

Kumble told Mumbai Mirror that he insisted on a second wicketkeeper (for the Sri Lanka Test series) because there was a view among some of the selectors that the Indian team could do with one specialist.

Kumble said that there was nothing wrong in taking the additional specialist wicketkeeper. "As captain I am aware that there could be problems if the specialist were to pull a muscle or have a runny stomach on the morning of a Test. There was a suggestion that Rahul (Dravid) be the second wicketkeeper, but I persuaded the committee to view things from Indian cricket's point of view and advantage."