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Q: Is selecting the Indian cricket team for any bi or multi-later championship as stressful as, say, choosing ministers for a central/state cabinet?
A: It’s complex to say the least. In both cases, expertise/ experience/ proof of capabilities are evaluated. But they might not be enough. That’s where imponderables like interplay of human beings comes to the fore, though quite often covertly. One can’t exactly pinpoint the list of intricacies of human interactions including the politics of it. One can’t surmise on the basis of the intangibilities like the aforementioned ones. There are examples galore, worldwide , about not-so-transparent or partiality of the selection process in both the fields. Come to think of it, hasn’t it permeated in every field of our life?