MUMBAI: The Indian Cricket Board, BCCI, is reported to have fired the four-member senior national selection committee led by Chetan Sharma after the its cricket team failed to reach the final of the T20 World Cup in Australia.
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The move seemed to be a fallout of India’s semi-final exit from the T20 World Cup. Soon after the sacking, the Board of Control for Cricket invited applicants for the post of five selectors, until November 28, and initiated the process to re-constitute the selection committee for the senior men`s team.
The release said that candidates who wish to apply for the said positions need to fulfill certain criteria for their applications to be considered. The applicants should have played a minimum of seven Test matches or 40 First-Class matches or 10 ODI and 20 First-Class matches.
Indian media reports suggest Chetan Sharma (North zone), Harvinder Singh (Centra Zone), Sunil Joshi (South Zone) and Debasish Mohanty (East Zone) have had the shortest stint as senior national selectors in recent times. Some of them were appointed in 2020 and some in 2021. A senior national selector normally gets a four-year term subject to extension. There was no selector from West Zone after Abbey Kuruvilla’s tenure ended.
