By obfuscating issues and putting out evasive responses that the team had not been selected owing to...........

English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

By obfuscating issues and putting out evasive responses that the team had not been selected owing to ‘operational reasons’, BCCI officials have demonstrated a shocking degree of insensitivity. ___________________________________. Virat Kohli’s men should compete in the tournament, and the faster the BCCI clarifies its position and selects the squad, the better it would be for the players and the game.

It is poor sportsmanship that of the eight teams, ranging from Australia to Bangladesh, competing in the tournament, it is only India that hasn’t announced the squad yet.

Immediately thereafter, BCCI officials floated the story that India would not participate in the eighth edition of the Champions Trophy in England.

Seen in that context, it is a travesty that the Board of Control for Cricket in India is now using the Champions Trophy as a bargaining tool with the ICC (International Cricket Council) in a bid to retrieve its earlier proposed governance and revenue model with the parent body.

They have let down the cricketers, who are busy with the Indian Premier League but also have an eye on the Champions Trophy as it kick-starts their international season besides giving them an opportunity to defend their title.

It was nothing more dignified than a public tantrum that sought to leverage the Indian team’s commercial clout given the viewership size as well as broadcast and advertisement revenues it brings.

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Explanation:

Correct Answer is (d).The sentence preceding the blank discusses apathetic interest of BCCI officials towards the issue and the sentence following the blank quotes the importance of participating in the event for the players.
Out of the given choices, the sentence D starts with the pronoun ‘They’ that is used here in place of the noun ‘BCCI officials’ and the sentence also mentions cricketers in the context of the league.
All the other statements, however, state events which are helpful to initiate the topic and hence must fit in one of the opening paragraphs.
Clearly, option D is the best choice that would fit the blank contextually.