Sunil Gavaskar was not impressed with MS Dhoni's long break and asked "Does anybody keep himself away from playing for India for that long?"
Captain Cool's future is the focus of a lot of speculation since India's lost in the World Cup semifinal vs. Since that defeat in July last year, Dhoni has not played for the country.?
On whether Dhoni can play the World T20, Gavaskar said he could not pass judgement in the matter.?
"Fitness is something that I can't tell you anything at all. The question that needs to be asked is of MSD himself. He has not made himself available to play for India since 10th of July (9th actually)," he said
"That is the important question. Does anybody keep himself away from playing for India for that long? That is the question and therein lies the answer," he added.
Recently in an interview, Ravi Shastri said Dhoni might end his ODI career soon but still has a chance of playing in the World T20 if his form is good.
He was also critical of the Ranji Trohy's treatment.
"IPL dominates Ranji Trophy. Unless their match fees are increased substantially, it will be considered an orphan and poor cousin of Indian cricket," Gavaskar said.
"I think 26 percent of the BCCI revenue goes to the players, out of which 13 percent goes to the international players, 10 percent goes to domestic cricket, 1.5 to junior, 1.5 to women's cricket. That has not really been increased over the past few years barring the Test cricketers."
"I am hoping new president Sourav Ganguly will look into this. The disparity that you see between IPL players, who don't always play first class cricket, and those who play all the domestic games, about 80 days and somebody who plays 14 days of IPL," he went on to say.
"There is a big disparity. I am talking about the uncapped players. Hopefully that will be narrowed down as much as possible."