Among the dismissed members were Gagan Khoda, who also had a stint as a selector for the national side, Mayank Sidhana, and Anil Bhardwaj.

DDCA president Rohan Jaitley wrote to the CAC, highlighting the selectors’ incompetence towards the team’s cricket. Upon receiving and reviewing the letter, the selectors were dismissed a few hours later. Confirming that the selectors have been sacked, DDCA director Shyam Sunder told the Indian Express:

Highlighting the lack of planning and the ‘scant commitment’ towards the goal of improving the side’s state and quality of cricket, Rohan Jaitley wrote in his letter to the CAC:

He continued:

Delhi are in a perilous state in the ongoing Ranji Trophy season at the moment. They sit in seventh position in Elite Group B and are yet to secure a win so far despite having played four matches already.

Their white-ball campaigns also did not go as per plan, with poor and constant selection changes as well as abysmal injury management not helping their cause. They reached the quarter-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, losing to Vidarbha by one run and finishing sixth in their group during the Vijay Hazare trophy.

Mayank Sidhana had walked out of a meeting after a fallout with members of the Delhi selection committee

Yash Dhull and co. were hapless in their most recent Ranji Trophy contest and were reduced to 5-6 in the first innings courtesy of a first-over hat-trick by Jaydev Unadkat.

The tactic of exposing debutant Ayush Badoni to the veteran left-arm seamer on a testing track was not met well within the management.

Things took a turn for the worse after an apparent mutiny in the selection camp. Mayank Sidhana walked out of a meeting, which was scheduled to select the U-25 squad. Following disagreements with chief Gagan Khoda and secretary Siddharth Sahib Singh, he did not sign the team sheet and made his exit.

Blaming Sidhana for the disruption in the system, Khoda told the Indian Express:

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