• Last but not the least is Ashish Nehra. Trying for a comeback after injury and playing first four matches at home, Delhi had a big chance of utilising him. Instead, he gets four brown and placid wickets at home, a bad remark on his attitude and not a single person in DDCA voicing displeasure when the left-arm paceman was left out of the World Cup probables.

According to a senior player requesting anonymity, “It’s not that the association doesn’t know what is happening. If we leave the team and go, then it becomes easy for them to play their own wards. Look at the way they humiliated Rahul Sanghvi, Amit Bhandari and how they treated Chetanya Nanda, our top wicket-taker last season. It’s just that they are not bothered.”

Chetan Chauhan, the coach of the Delhi team and the DDCA vice-president says, “DDCA has always supported its players. We feel proud when players from Delhi get selected. We have a limited scope as far as supporting the players through the board. The selectors are independent, but we are supporting them through television commentary and also speaking to them in favour of them. In this age of professionalism, everybody is entitled to look at an offer, say like Ajay Jadeja who went to Rajasthan, but I would like to call the players for a discussion along with me, the president, other vice-presidents and the secretary to talk about it.”