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Iconic paddler Sharath Kamal said the Table Tennis Federation of India’s enactment argumentation could beryllium debated and reviewed going forward, but not aft the nationalist squad for the Asian Games has been announced.
He was responding to a question connected the omission of Manika Batra from the Indian women’s squad aft she failed to conscionable the stipulated enactment criteria.
“The caller enactment argumentation was introduced successful 2023. Even earlier that, it was much oregon little the same, with players ranked wrong the world’s apical 50 earning nonstop introduction into the team. Rules are rules. We tin sermon whether the enactment argumentation is close oregon incorrect and marque changes for the future, but we cannot use those arguments retrospectively,” Sharath, two-time Asian Games medallist, told The Hindu on the sidelines of the 2nd State-ranking tournament, present connected Sunday.
Asked whether Manika, ranked 51 successful the world, could inactive beryllium accommodated successful the squad considering her stature and past achievements connected the planetary stage, Sharath said: “If Manika is near out, yes, we volition beryllium missing an important player. But if we prime her contempt the criteria, we would beryllium doing an injustice to a subordinate like Syndrela Das, the 16-year-old, who reached the last astatine the National championships and is presently ranked No. 2 connected the home circuit’’.
