The turf-war between Delhi & Districts Cricket Association’s sports committee and the ad-hoc selection panel appointed by the executive body for the under-19 and under-22 levels took a new twist on Wednesday with the former threatening to suspend the ongoing conditioning camps for the U-19 and U-22 probables.

As has been already reported, the sports committee has been seething with the way the ad-hoc panel — which includes Chetan Chauhan, Hari Gidwani and Vinay Lamba — went about pruning down the list of players who were to be part of these camps.

Tension has been brewing since the day the original list — of 34 and 46 probables for the U-22 and U-19 camps respectively — were shortlisted by the panel.

To end the feud, DDCA president Anil Jaitley had called a meeting at his residence on Tuesday evening that was attended by the ad-hoc panel, DDCA vice-president CK Khanna, sports secretary Sunil Dev and general secretary Sneh Bansal. And while there was finally consensus on the decision to accommodate the seven players in the U-19 camp and four in the U-22 camp who were left out after the pruning, the the sticky issue of holding trials for these players left the sports committee members angry.

“They (the ad-hoc panel) cannot call for trials during the conditioning camp. They were only asked to oversee these camps but now they have exceeded their brief. We have suspended the camps for the time being. We will hold a meeting on Wednesday and then decide the next course of action regarding the continuation of camps,” sports committee member Vijay Bahadur Mishra told Sportline on Tuesday.

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