Mumbai :
The BCCI on Saturday invited applications for the post of national selectors with only two slots to be filled in the senior panel vacated by incumbent chairman MSK Prasad and his colleague Gagan Khoda.
Along with the senior selection committee, the entire women's selection panel will be overhauled while the junior men's committee will feature two changes. The last date for submission is January 24.
It is still not clear whether the proposed Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Madan Lal,Gautam Gambhir and Sulakshana Naik will be conducting interviews of the interested candidates.
For themen's team, BCCI had invited applications for just two positions with th ecriteria that the applicant fulfils the required criteria - Should have played7 Test matches or, 30 first-class matches or, 10 ODIs and 20 first-class matches and should have retired from the game at least 5 years ago. Former India batsman Dilip Vengsarkar, whose name was floated by a section of themedia, is 64 years old.
The BCCI brass led by Sourav Ganguly has adhered to specifications given in the new constitution where qualification for applying for senior selector's postrequires a candidate to play either seven Tests and 30 first-class games or 10ODIs and 20 first-class matches. The person needs to be retired from all formsof cricket for at least five years.
For themen's team, BCCI had invited applications for just two positions with thecriteria that the applicant fulfils the required criteria - Should have played7 Test matches or, 30 first-class matches or, 10 ODIs and 20 first-classmatches and should have retired from the game at least 5 years ago.
For thewomen's team, there are five positions open with the criteria that theapplicant - should have represented the Indian Women’s Cricket Team and shouldhave retired from the game at least 5 years ago. And for the junior team, thereare two positions open wherein the applicant - should have played 25first-class matches and should have retired from the game at least 5 years ago.
All theapplications whould reach the BCCI headquarters by 11:59 pm on January 24,2020.