"I sympathise with people, including the administrators and cricketers, who are aggrieved with the selection of the Indian team to Denmark and Holland," Rungta said.

The team for this twin tour will leave Delhi on the night of July 26.

S Karunakaran Nair, treasurer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and a senior member of the board, in a statement in Trivananthapuram, had criticised the team selection stating that "Rahul Dravid should have been the obvious choice for captaincy".

Criticising the selection of Hyderabad off-spinner, Kanwaljit Singh, at the age of 40, Nair said, "I was baffled by the exclusion of KN Ananthapadmanabhan (a Kerala leg-spinner)".

Nair had in a letter to BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur urged him to lay down a clear-cut policy in matters of team selection. This implied that at present therewas no clear-cut system in the Indian cricket administration in team selections.

Declining to react on these specific charges, Rungta said "the selection of the squad is unanimous and I and my colleagues in the committee are fully aware of the merits of each player". The selections were based on domestic performances, he said.

Rungta said, "we cannot satisfy everyone and people have the right to vent their feelings but only 14 cricketers can make the tour. Such criticisms were not new to us in the committee".

Recently, board joint secretary Jyoti Bajpai was critical that no one from his state Uttar Pradesh was picked to play in the India-Kenya-Bangladesh one-day series.

Earlier, Brijesh Patel (Karnataka), VV Kumar (TN) and OK Ramdas (Kerala), selection committee members from the South Zone, had, in a joint memorandum to the board president, objected to the inclusion of Madhukar (son of board vice-president Venkat Rao) in the India A team's tour of Pakistan. Now the board treasurer has raised an issuedemanding a debate, Rungta said.

He said, "we have been propagating that the selection committee meetings should be telecast or videotaped to have total transparency".