Former chief selector Dilip Vengasarkar said he will refrain from responding to Sourav Ganguly's [Images] outburst against the selectors till the end of the current series against Australia [Images] as it could divert the team's focus.

"I won't answer him now, as this is not the right time, because India are in the middle of a Test series and it might affect the focus of the team," Vengsarkar said on Friday.

• 'I was not prepared to take more humiliation'

"But I will definitely answer him after the series is over. He will get more than what he has asked for," he added.

Ganguly hit out at the selectors for the manner he had been treated and said he decided to retire to save himself the humiliation of being treated as the "sacrificial goat" all the time.

"There is no point playing like this. I am not willing to play at their (selectors') mercy. They will pick you now and then dump you. Why should I be the sacrificial goat all the time? It was difficult to accept," said Ganguly, who announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday.

Vengsarkar also said the Board of Control for Cricket in India will look into the matter and find out what Ganguly had told the Bengali daily.

"All I had said yesterday [to a television channel] is that if he had said anything [on selection], the BCCI will look into it," he said.

News 24 channel, in a press statement, late Thursday night, quoted Vengsarkar as saying, "Sourav should stay away from making any statements till he is playing as they will create unnecessary controversies."

He also said, "The BCCI should take some strict action against this as such statements are needless and can affect the morale and spirit of the whole squad."