The BCCI on Monday invited functions to switch one among the many 5 senior nationwide selectors and in all probability, former pacer Salil Ankola could be the one on his manner out as West Zone is already represented by chairman Ajit Agarkar.
The BCCI posted an commercial on its web site itemizing the identical necessities which were in place for the previous couple of years — the incumbent ought to have performed both 7 Exams or 30 first-class matches. Functions can even be thought-about if the candidate has an expertise of 10 ODIs or 20 first-class matches.
The final date of submitting functions is January 25.
The five-man choice committee contains Agarkar (chairman, Mumbai, West Zone), S Sharath (Tamil Nadu, South Zone), SS Das (Vidarbha, Central Zone), Subroto Banerjee (Bengal, Bihar, East Zone) and Ankola (Mumbai, Maharashtra, West Zone).
“Save Ajit Agarkar, all of the 4 others accomplished their one-year time period on December 31, 2023. They got one-year contract,” a senior BCCI official advised PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
“Technically, there isn’t any rule you can’t have two selectors from the identical zone, (however) the BCCI has all the time maintained the conference of getting one selector from every zone and north zone had no consultant after Chetan Sharma acquired sacked,” he defined.
After the 2022 T20 World Cup the place India may solely make the semifinals, all the choice panel, together with chairman Chetan Sharma, was sacked.
However when recent functions had been invited, Chetan returned to the fold to symbolize North Zone following an interview by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Ashok Malhotra together with Jatin Paranjpe, and Sulakshana Naik. He was later sacked for unfastened speak on choice issues in a sting operation.
“The remainder (of the) 4, Sharath, Ankola, Banerjee and Das accomplished 5 zones. As soon as Chetan was eliminated, the BCCI wanted a person of stature and as soon as Agarkar was on board, we had two from the identical zone.
“However no rule was damaged because it was all the time a conference. The BCCI had given all of them a one 12 months time period, which is prolonged yearly upto a interval of 4 years. Sadly, it appears Salil should make a transfer,” the supply added.
No date has been set for the interviews however it’s anticipated that new selector will solely be part of throughout the IPL as there will not be any choice assembly after the workforce for the following three Exams is determined.
Ankola was just lately in South Africa for the India A sequence and stayed again for India’s two Exams towards the senior workforce.