The West Zone is already represented by chairman Ajit Agarkar in the men’s selection committee.
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited applications on Monday to replace one of the selectors. The last date for submitting applications is January 25. It is expected that former pacer Salil Ankola will make way for the new selector as West Zone is already represented by chairman Ajit Agarkar.
The five-man selection committee comprises 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).
In an advertisement that BCCI posted on its website on Monday, the BCCI said the candidate should be a former cricketer who has played either 7 Tests or 30 first-class matches. The BCCI will also consider applications who has played 10 ODIs or 20 first-class matches.
“Save Ajit Agarkar, all the four others completed their one-year term on December 31, 2023. They were given one-year contract. Technically, there is no rule that you can’t have two selectors from the same zone, (but) the BCCI has always maintained the convention of having one selector from each zone and north zone had no representative after Chetan Sharma got sacked,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.