India, Dec. 22 -- The BCCI's carefully drawn captaincy roadmap reached an unexpected dead end. While the realisation within the Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee had reportedly set in much earlier, it was only made official on Saturday, when BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed in a press conference that Shubman Gill's T20 ambitions had stalled after the selectors rejected him for the World Cup squad, citing concerns over his form.

The decision underlined the Agarkar-Gautam Gambhir regime's core belief in not letting reputation or superstar status outweigh performance, but it also leaves the team management facing a familiar dilemma. Once the World Cup concludes in March next year, the selectors will be forced back to the drawing b...