It is his innings against West Delhi Lions, where his unconventional batting stance and ineptness to even play one powerful shot, raised a lot of questions. Playing five dot balls to a spinner in the Powerplay had players, coaches and officials questioning in hushed tones as to how Dev made it to the playing eleven. The New Delhi Tigers with one win from 10 games are last in the eight team table. The man in question Dev, played two games as an opener, scored 0 off 2 balls against South Delhi Superstarz and 16 off 24 balls against West Delhi Lions.
The inclusion of a cricketer called Dev Chaudhary by DPL franchise New Delhi Tigers has brought a lot of disrepute for Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) which will now “review” the rule which allows teams to field three players from local league post auction.
The DPL ‘Tournament Rules’ this season allowed all eight franchises to pick three players of their choice outside the auction with minimum criteria being five matches in DDCA League.
“It has been an absolute shame. I was the first one who had raised my voice about this rule. They made a criteria that five DDCA League games would be enough to qualify for a place in DPL without auction. Dev Chaudhary: The club from which he played DDCA League games to qualify for DPL is Sporting Club from which India pacer Prince Yadav had also played. The man who runs the club Amit Vashistha wasn’t available for comment but another club source informed that Dev indeed played a few league games for their club. “He was recommended by former India U19 and Delhi pacer Pradeep Sangwan. The father didn’t ask any questions and Dev never came again. When we saw him playing DPL, we were stunned. How did someone like Rajkumar Sharma allow this to happen,” the club source questioned.
When DDCA secretary Ashok Sharma was contacted, he said: “The Rule will be reviewed once the tournament is over. He played two games and after that one of our senior club official called his father and told him that ‘Please don’t send your son as he isn’t good enough’.
