Saikia also elaborated on BCCI's decision to send Sooryavanshi's parents with him to UK.
BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia has ruled out the Indian board punishing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for his involvement in a confrontation during a game between India A and Sri Lanka A in Dambulla in the ongoing one-day tri-series.
Sooryavanshi and Sri Lanka’s Vishen Halambage got into a physical altercation after the Sri Lankan cricketer made a provocative comment towards him.
"A lot of things are going on in social media that the BCCI is contemplating action on, etc." Do you want the BCCI to step into the domain of the match referee? The BCCI is not an authority; we should not intrude into the area where the match referee and the umpires are the main persons who can make any decision regarding any incident that has happened in the playground.
Whatever had happened, it was a part of the game, and the BCCI had no role to play. The role is that of the match referee. If anything is going wrong, he will take a call, the umpires will take a call, and there is a system in place," Saikia stated on PTI.
Saikia further stated that a 15-year-old schoolboy needs to be eased into a senior team set-up, on BCCI’s decision to allow Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's parents to accompany him on the white-ball tour of Ireland and England later this month.
"You see, not all national teams at the senior level have a 14 or 15-year-old in their squad. After many decades, we have someone like Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. At one point in time, it was Sachin Tendulkar (16 and a half at the time of his Test debut) who made it to the national team at such a young age. When such a young kid is part of the senior team, there are obviously a lot of issues that can crop up,” Saikia stated.
"Therefore, to make him comfortable and help him get used to an adult environment, where all the other players are above 18 years of age, and the team management members are also adults, we felt it would be helpful. We are doing this because we believe it will ease a lot of issues as far as Vaibhav is concerned,” Saikia added.
"Even when a school student goes on an excursion, there is usually a senior person accompanying them. Vaibhav is still a kid. He has only just come out of school or is perhaps in his final year of school.
So, we thought it proper to allow his parents to travel with him. I am very happy that his parents are also taking good care of their kid, who is an asset for Indian cricket not only now but for the next two or three decades," he added.