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Kishan and Iyer were left out after failing to show up for domestic engagements despite a directive from the BCCI. Iyer found himself at the receiving end after it emerged that he had attended a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/ipl-2024-weve-been-focussing-on-style-of-cricket-gambhir-wants-us-to-play-rana-23347761" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Kolkata Knight Riders</a>&rsquo; camp in Mumbai. &ldquo;You can check the constitution. I am just a convener [of the selection meeting],&rdquo; he said during a media interaction at the BCCI head office in Mumbai on Thursday.&nbsp;
&ldquo;That decision lies with Agarkar, even when these two players [Kishan and Iyer] who did not play domestic [cricket], the decision to drop them [from the central contracts list] was only his. My role is just to implement,&rdquo; he added.
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“That decision lies with Agarkar": Jay Shah opens up on Iyer, Kishan's snub

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