Sheldon Philip Jackson aka Sheldon Jackson is a wicketkeeper and batsman who plays for Saurashtra. It seems like this wicketkeeper-batsman has got irked on the selection committee on their process of picking up the players. He slammed out the national selectors on the process of choosing players for the India A team. Sheldon expressed his views saying that selectors are biased against coming from different states. He further appealed the selectors to be transparent in their process while picking the candidates. He took his views and questioned the selectors on his Twitter handle.
Here series of tweets goes as like this,
“Saurashtra has played the Ranji Trophy final this year, and surprisingly still no player, even after performing at all platforms, get picked for the A-series. So is the importance of playing the Ranji Trophy finals zero (sic.),” he said.
“Or is that small state sides aren’t taken seriously coz in the last 5 years @saucricket has played 3 finals under sitanshu kotaks coaching, (we have some very good performers since recent years with the bat and ball) but did not get the deserved credit (sic).
“I am told not to question, but I strongly believe that we represent this beautiful organization and association and we as players surely deserve to know why, and where we lack, or else our carriers are just going to end wondering why selectors should be transparent (sic)”
Sheldon Jackson has played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL and averages close to 50 in first-class cricket.