A view of the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: The Hindu
The BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia invited purposes on Friday (August 22, 2025). Each nationwide choice panel includes 5 members, conventionally from every of the 5 main zones. The BCCI has not specified in regards to the choice committee members who will survive.
The Hindu understands that S. Sharath, the previous Tamil Nadu stalwart, will make method for a brand new face after serving 4 years in succession in junior and choice committees mixed. After the India Under-19’s triumphant marketing campaign within the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, Sharath in the beginning of 2023 was elevated into the senior choice panel.
It is known that both Subroto Banerjee, the previous India pacer or Shiv Sunder Das, the previous India opener will make method for a brand new face within the choice panel.
With Ajit Agarkar, who has emerged as a headstrong chief selector even since his appointment in July 2023, being assured of at the least one other yr on the helm of affairs, the rejigged choice committee will proceed to observe the roadmap in direction of the subsequent yr’s T20 World Cup and the 2027 ODI World Cup. Agarkar’s contract was renewed by the BCCI apex council earlier within the quarter.
The BCCI’s cricket advisory committee, with Ashok Malhotra because the chair and Sulakshana Naik and Jatin Paranjape as its members, is more likely to interview shortlisted candidates earlier than the BCCI annual normal assembly ratifies the appointments on the finish of September.
It shall be fascinating to see if the junior choice panel may have a change of chief selector forward of the subsequent yr’s Under-19 World Cup.
While the ladies’s choice panel is about for a significant revamp with a majority of its members, together with chief selector Neetu David, having served the utmost permissible restrict of 5 years. With the squad for the ODI World Cup having been chosen earlier within the week, the ladies’s nationwide choice panel may be reformulated in the beginning of the subsequent event cycle.
Published – August 22, 2025 02:40 pm IST
