NEW DELHI, Dec 12: After dropping a bombshell about interference in selection matters on Tuesday, former national selector Mohinder Amarnath on Wednesday named BCCI president N Srinivasan as the person who overruled the “unanimous” decision to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni as captain after India’s eight consecutive overseas Test defeats.

“It was a unanimous decision, all five selectors supported it but the Board President (Srinivasan) did not approve the decision to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni,” Amarnath told a news television.

“Why do you need a selection committee if one person is deciding about the team affairs?”

Amarnath, who played 69 Tests and 74 one-dayers for India, said the selection committee had picked 17 players for the tri-series but had not named a captain.

“We selected the team for the triangular series but we didn’t select the captain. The captain was selected by somebody else,” Amarnath, one of India’s heroes in the 1983 World Cup triumph, said.—Agencies