Chief selector Sandeep Patil rejected the offer by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to go and watch the Indian team play in the ICC cricket World Cup 2015 and preferred to watch domestic cricket instead.

BCCI wanted Patil to go to Australia and watch Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men defend the title, but he declined to go as he felt that his role as well as that of his co-selectors ended once they had picked the Cup squad, informed sources told PTI.