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'Perform or perish!' That is the message of BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah to the Indian team. In a CNN-IBN exclusive he says that non-performers could be called back, if they fail in the first Test against South Africa starting on Friday. Shah has however, dismissed the need for a bowling coach, something that chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar had spoken of earlier.

Dilip Vengsarkar, who is currently in South Africa, is optimistic that the Indian team will improve its performance after a drubbing it received in the One-Day series.

Is the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) putting undue pressure on our cricketers?

CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai put the question to the panellists including the Chief Administrative Officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Prof Ratnakar Shetty, former cricketer and national selector V B Chandrasekar and sports journalist Sharda Ugra.

The Indian Cricket Board is set to crack the whip, says the record. Perform or come back home is the message for the Men in Blue. It could be testing times for a team that is already struggling to make any impact in the African Safari.

Chairman of Selectors Vengsarkar is now in South Africa and will remain with the Indian team till the end of the Test series. He will have a voice in the selection of the playing 11 although the final decision will rest with the team management. There have been fears that Vengsarkar’s presence could undermine the role of the captain and the coach. But the Colonel himself has dismissed those fears.

Should non-performers be asked to come back?

How seriously should the fact that the non-performers should be called back be taken? Is it a threat to team given by the Indian Cricket Board? Is that really possible?

"I don’t know to what reaction he has made the statement; I have not heard the entire context. But I feel what Dilip Vengsarkar has said carries more weight because normally in a tour a player who is injured or a player who is not available for a long period and someone with a serious problem comes back home. I don’t think really that just a performance in one match really has ever been a case in the past,” said Prof Ratnakar Shetty.