I am surprised to hear this comment. In this professional age nothing comes for free. Even if they are compensated for the travel at actual expenses what about the time they devote in seeing those matches. If they are not compensated for that why should they work. They would rather work at a place where they can earn money. By not paying them and then on top of that curtailing their other activities is worse than what the Britishers did to us.
You would say this is an honorary position. Then I have one question, why should this be voluntary service. They are selecting a team of players who are getting fat pays for their appearance in these cricket matches. So when the players and coaches are paid for their services why not the selectors?
Now coming to the competency for this job. I don't think this job can be done by anyone. It requires a basic competency of atleast playing first class cricket which at least I don't have and with respect to you guys I won't comment on it because I don't know from which wood you come from and what worthwhile deeds you have done in your life for cricket.
Finally, BCCI has hunderd thousand dollars to attract overseas players for its pet project IPL but it does not have a few thousand rupees to spare for its selectors who are performing a job just like the players and coaches. This a very bad situation but whats pathetic is , there are some guys who support this move.
