No individual decision will prevail in a committee: MSK Prasad defends himself after Ambati Rayudu’s 2019 WC comments

After Ambati Rayudu alleged in a recent interview that he was excluded from India’s ODI World Cup squad in 2019 due to his difference with then selector MSK Prasad, the latter has answered these claims in an interview of his own.
“All of us know that the selection committee has got five selectors and the captain sitting in the selection committee. Will any single person’s decision be taken or is it a consensus or is it a entire collective decision that would be taken? If an individual can take a decision then you don’t require five selectors. So any decision that is taken only happens with the consensus of the entire selection committee. So it is a collective decision. Not an individual decision. I may propose something but somebody else has to accept it. No individual decision will prevail in a committee,” Prasad said in an interview with timesnownews.com on Thursday.
Rayudu had also talked about how he did not like some of MSK prasad’s methods when the former BCCI chief was captain of the Andhra Ranji team in 2005. Speaking on that, Prasad said that it was fair for Rayudu to not like his style of captaincy but there was no personal boas from his side while selecting the squad for the 2019 World Cup.
“In a team, a small difference can happen during a long cricketing season. There can be a difference of opinion between brothers also. But that cannot be the reason to carry such small differences here and there to such a big platform like Indian cricket team’s selection. Rayudu got selected for Indian Team for all the previous international games prior to the World Cup. When one doesn’t have differences for those matches then how come any difference will come for World Cup selections? I want to clear the air that the selection process is a complete collective decision but it will never be an individual opinion or decision,” Prasad added.
Rayudu recently announced his retirement from cricket after helping Chennai Super Kings clinch their 5th Indian Premier League crown against the Gujarat Titans in the final.
Rayudu’s final international record was nowhere near what India expected of him. In 55 ODIs, he scored 1,694 runs, including three centuries, at an average of 47.05. His score-sheet also shows 42 runs in six T20 Internationals, and 6,151 runs with 16 hundred in 97 first-class matches for Hyderabad, Andhra, Baroda and Vidarbha.