Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Chief Medical Officer Abhijit Salvi has resigned from his post after almost a decade of association with the board. Salvi informed news agency PTI that his notice period had ended on November 30, but he carried on till the end of the second Test match between India and New Zealand.
“I thank the BCCI for giving me this opportunity. After 10 years in the organisation, I wanted to move on. It had become a 24×7 job in COVID times and I want to give time to myself and family," Salvi told PTI.
ESPNcricinfo speculated that Slavi’s resignation comes at a very odd hour considering the timing of India’s Under-16 national championships, which begins on January 9, 2022.
Salvi was in charge of verifying the player’s ages eligibility for the U16s, popularly known as the Vijay Merchant Trophy. BCCI have not made the announcement public and have not named any replacement for their Chief Medical Officer and it is unclear as to how BCCI are going to carry on with such a technical process.
In normal circumstances, Salvi would be testing the players with the Tanner Whitehouse 3 method, which uses the bone density of the wrists to determine if the player is lying about their age or not.