NEW DELHI: Former India all-rounder Ajit Agarkar was on Tuesday appointed because the chief selector of the Team India’s senior males’s choice committee.
“The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), consisting of Sulakshana Naik, Ashok Malhotra, and Jatin Paranjape, recommended his name after the interviews for the said position,” said a BCCI media launch.
The committee additional beneficial Agarkar for the function of chairman based mostly on the seniority (whole variety of Test matches).
Agarkar represented the nation in 26 Tests, 191 ODIs, and 4 T20Is, along with enjoying 110 first-class, 270 List A, and 62 T20 matches.
Agarkar’s appointment will imply that West Zone can have two selectors with Salil Ankola being the opposite one. The others are Subroto Banerjee from Central Zone, S Sharath from South and SS Das from East.
Agarkar was a part of India’s victorious squad within the inaugural T20 World Cup held in South Africa in 2007. He nonetheless holds the report for the quickest half-century by an Indian batter in ODI, achieved with a 21-ball fifty in opposition to Zimbabwe in 2000.
Agarkar has a Test hundred at Lord’s and performed an enormous half in India’s Test victory in Australia, again in 2004, with a six-wicket haul within the Adelaide recreation.
He additionally held the report for being the quickest to achieve 50 ODI wickets for practically a decade, undertaking the milestone in simply 23 matches.
Following his enjoying profession, he was appointed because the chief selector for the senior Mumbai staff and undertook teaching tasks with the Delhi Capitals.
Men’s Selection Committee: Ajit Agarkar (Chairman), Shiv Sundar Das, Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola, Sridharan Sharath.
“The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), consisting of Sulakshana Naik, Ashok Malhotra, and Jatin Paranjape, recommended his name after the interviews for the said position,” said a BCCI media launch.
The committee additional beneficial Agarkar for the function of chairman based mostly on the seniority (whole variety of Test matches).
Agarkar represented the nation in 26 Tests, 191 ODIs, and 4 T20Is, along with enjoying 110 first-class, 270 List A, and 62 T20 matches.
Agarkar’s appointment will imply that West Zone can have two selectors with Salil Ankola being the opposite one. The others are Subroto Banerjee from Central Zone, S Sharath from South and SS Das from East.
Agarkar was a part of India’s victorious squad within the inaugural T20 World Cup held in South Africa in 2007. He nonetheless holds the report for the quickest half-century by an Indian batter in ODI, achieved with a 21-ball fifty in opposition to Zimbabwe in 2000.
Agarkar has a Test hundred at Lord’s and performed an enormous half in India’s Test victory in Australia, again in 2004, with a six-wicket haul within the Adelaide recreation.
He additionally held the report for being the quickest to achieve 50 ODI wickets for practically a decade, undertaking the milestone in simply 23 matches.
Following his enjoying profession, he was appointed because the chief selector for the senior Mumbai staff and undertook teaching tasks with the Delhi Capitals.
Men’s Selection Committee: Ajit Agarkar (Chairman), Shiv Sundar Das, Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola, Sridharan Sharath.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com