Appointment of senior and U-23 selectors yet to be fixed by MCA

Its been more than a month since Raju Kulkarni Ravi Thakkar Sanjay Patil Jeetendra Thackeray and Kiran Powar were announced as selectors by the Mumbai Cricket AssociationHowever they are still waiting for their agreements to reach them Former India pacer Kulkarni who was MCArsquos Cricket Improvement Committee CIC chief earlier on Wednesday sent MCA a reminder along with his offerldquoWe selectors did our work in good faith and selected the U23 as well as the senior teamrsquos probables As we work for both teams we will be working for around 1400 to 1500 hours in the entire yearlsquoWe are on equal termsrsquoldquoThey MCA will take a decision on my offer and I am awaiting it We are on equal terms If they accept my offer I will stay otherwise I will walk awayrdquo Kulkarni told midday on Thursday It is learnt that MCA president Amol Kale will be discussing Kulkarnirsquos offer with his colleagues and will take a decision in a couple of days On May 2 MCArsquos CIC headed by exIndia opener Lalchand Rajput with members Sahil Kukreja and Preeti Dimri made several appointments for various teams which included Omkar Salvi as the Mumbai senior teamrsquos head coach ldquoWe have not received any offer letter or agreement or terms and conditions from MCA and I donrsquot think any appointed selectors have received anything yet We worked for more than 200 hours for selections in the Madhav Mantri Trophy the spinnersrsquo camp for all age group players etc So I gave MCA my offer along with a report on how many hours we worked and our plans for the futurerdquo Kulkarni remarkedMCArsquos quick responseHowever Kulkarni appreciated MCArsquos quick positive response on his proposals which he felt was lacking earlier ldquoWe must give credit to MCA for starting offseason activities in June which used to begin in August I think it is the first time in the history of Mumbai cricket that they made appointments in MayldquoThe MCA also gave a green signal in just five minutes to our proposals of the spinnersrsquo camp four extra selection matches after the Madhav Mantri Trophy and a camp for pace bowlers before the Kanga League for A and B division playersrdquo Kulkarni said It is learnt that coaches and selectors for all other age groups received appointment letters and are also awaiting their agreements to sign Meanwhile Mumbai U16 selector Girish Patki has decided to quit as selectorAlso Read Windies tour Rinku Jitesh in line for T20Is will selectors drop Test specialist Pujara