CAC interviews 15 candidates for selectors posts

The two-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) interviewed 15 candidates for seven posts mixed within the nationwide senior males’s, senior girls’s and junior males’s choice committees on Thursday.

The Hindu understands that former India batters Ashok Malhotra and Jatin Paranjape interviewed 4 candidates for the senior males’s, 10 for senior girls’s and one candidate for the junior selector’s submit by way of videoconferencing facility. Last month, the BCCI had sought purposes for 2, 4 and one submit within the senior males’s, senior girls’s and junior males’s classes, respectively.

Sulakshana Naik, who served on the CAC since December 2022 together with chairman Malhotra and Paranjape, resigned not too long ago since she is an aspirant for the ladies’s choice panel.

While the BCCI has not made a proper remark or announcement, The Hindu confirmed that R.P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Amay Khurasiya had been among the many 4 males’s candidates interviewed. Singh and Ojha — the previous pacer and spinner, respectively — are the front-runners to be inducted rather than S. Sharath and Subroto Banerjee.

Sharath, in the meantime, was interviewed for the junior choice committee panel, the place he’s set to interchange Thilak Naidu because the chair of the panel forward of the following 12 months’s under-19 World Cup.

Besides Sulakshana, among the many distinguished candidates to have been interviewed included Jaya Sharma, Amita Sharma, Sravanthi Naidu, Smita Singh, Anagha Deshpande and Diana David.

The CAC will inform its suggestions to the BCCI office-bearers who will put it ahead within the annual normal assembly on September 28 for ratification.