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dated February 5, 1954: Merchant's criticism

The policy of the selection committee of the Indian Cricket Board in favouring good, young cricketers and forgetting them immediately was criticised by V.M. Merchant. In his presidential speech at the Gymkhana Day celebrations of the Sir Parshurambhau College in Poona, he said that the duty of any selector was to afford every player selected an opportunity to justify his place in the side. The Indian selectors had deprived quite a few youngsters of this opportunity. Citing the cases of Dani, D.H. Shodhan and Apte, Merchant hoped that Dani would still find a place in the future Indian Test sides. Merchant remarked that the present unofficial "Test" series should have been utilised for building up future Indian Test sides. With this in mind, the selectors should have tried youngsters in place of the veterans who have been playing in the present series and who would probably become old for the next foreign tour (in England) by an Indian team after seven years in 1961.

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