BFI sticks to evaluation system to select teams for World C'ship

Indian teams will continue to be selected through the evaluation process at the national camp, with selection trials being held only in 'certain circumstances' at the discretion of the Boxing Federation of India (BFI), as per the draft selection policy announced for the new season.

- Avishek Roy

about his attitude now," he added. During the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Shaw missed training sessions regularly after showing up at the team hotel at "six in the morning" being out for most of the night.

Shaw, who has attracted a lot of attention for his off-field activities and not doing his talent justice by focusing on his game, would not get any favor from such social media posts, the official said. "You would be wrong to think such posts on social media would have any impact on the Mumbai selectors and the MCA," he added.

Shaw's teammate and Mumbai captain Shreyas Iyer too had issued a stern statement on the night Mumbai defeated Madhya Pradesh in the final to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. "He needs to get his work ethics right. And if he does that, (the) sky's the limit for him," Iyer told reporters in Bengaluru.

"We can't babysit anyone, right? He has played so much of cricket. Everyone has given him inputs. At the end of the day, it's his job to figure out things for himself. And he has also done it in the past. It's not that he hasn't."

Shaw was earlier left out of Mumbai's Ranji Trophy squad for similar reasons in October.

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