Former left-arm spinner Maninder Singh, opener Shiv Sunder Das had been the 2 distinguished names to have utilized for senior nationwide selectors’ posts with expertise of enjoying greater than 20 Tests for India. It could not be confirmed whether or not former pacer Ajit Agarkar has utilized or not. According to many, Agarkar has a sure-shot probability of turning into choice committee chairman along with his worldwide credentials, if he decides to use. Salil Ankola, present chairman of senior Mumbai workforce, former keeper Samir Dighe and the flamboyant Vinod Kambli are mentioned to have utilized from Mumbai.
As the date of software for the brand new panel closed at 6 pm on Monday, it’s understood that greater than 50 individuals have utilized however there aren’t too many heavyweights within the fray.
Among the confirmed candidates, nobody has performed extra Tests than Maninder (35 Tests) whereas Das (21 Tests) is second in that record.
However, Maninder had utilized in 2021 additionally and regardless of qualifying for the interview spherical, he was pipped by Chetan Sharma, who was the selection of erstwhile Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Madan Lal.
Chetan, actually, had performed lesser variety of matches as in comparison with Maninder however stature-wise each had been nearly of identical class, having been younger stars of mid to late Eighties earlier than fading away.
“Yes, I have applied,” Maninder confirmed to PTI.
Sources within the know confirmed that Das, who’s at the moment senior Punjab workforce’s batting coach, has utilized and with East Zone barely producing Test gamers of reputation, he stands an excellent probability to develop into a selector.
But, it’s not confirmed if Das’ house state Odisha will again his candidature.
Last time, Agarkar, regardless of being the favorite, did not get the job as the previous MCA regime hadn’t backed him because the officers needed Abey Kuruvilla.
The different names from North zone are light-weight former cricketers.
From North zone, other than Maninder, Atul Wassan, Nikhil Chopra (Delhi), Ajay Ratra (Haryana) and Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Punjab) are former India gamers who’ve thrown their hat into the ring.
From East zone, save Das, different names are actually light-weight. They embody Prabhanjan Mullick, Rashmi Ranjan Parida from Odisha, Subhamoy Das, Saradindu Mukherjee and Sourasish Lahiri from Bengal.
Deep Dasgupta and Laxmi Ratan Shukla (present Bengal coach) — two former India gamers — have determined in opposition to making use of.
From central zone, Amay Khurasiya of Madhya Pradesh and Gyanendra Pandey of Uttar Pradesh are believed to have utilized.
While there aren’t any written guidelines, BCCI usually believes in conference of equal distribution and therefore 5 junior and 5 senior selectors in latest occasions have been from 10 completely different states.
So, junior choice committee has one from Tamil Nadu (S Sharath), Bengal (Ranadeb Bose), MP (Harvinder Sodhi), Punjab (Krishan Mohan) and Gujarat (Pathik Patel).
Hence, it’s anticipated that candidates from these 5 states are more likely to be excluded.
From Tamil Nadu, distinguished names like L Sivaramakrishnan and WV Raman have not utilized.
However, former Hyderabad off-spinner Kanwaljeet Singh has utilized for the job as a South zone candidate.
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