The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited applications for two slots within the males’s senior choice committee, one in junior choice panel and 4 members within the ladies’s senior choice panel. The deadline for the eligible candidates to submit their applications is September 10.
The BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia invited applications on Friday (August 22, 2025). Each nationwide choice panel contains 5 members, conventionally from every of the 5 main zones. The BCCI has not specified in regards to the choice committee members who will survive.
The Hindu understands that S. Sharath, the previous Tamil Nadu stalwart, will make approach for a brand new face after serving 4 years in succession in junior and choice committees mixed. After the India Under-19’s triumphant marketing campaign within the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, Sharath at the beginning of 2023 was elevated into the senior choice panel.
It is known that both Subroto Banerjee, the previous India pacer or Shiv Sunder Das, the previous India opener will make approach for a brand new face within the choice panel.
With Ajit Agarkar, who has emerged as a headstrong chief selector even since his appointment in July 2023, being assured of at the very least one other 12 months on the helm of affairs, the rejigged choice committee will proceed to observe the roadmap in direction of the following 12 months’s T20 World Cup and the 2027 ODI World Cup. Agarkar’s contract was renewed by the BCCI apex council earlier within the quarter.
The BCCI’s cricket advisory committee, with Ashok Malhotra because the chair and Sulakshana Naik and Jatin Paranjape as its members, is prone to interview shortlisted candidates earlier than the BCCI annual common assembly ratifies the appointments on the finish of September.
It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if the junior choice panel can have a change of chief selector forward of the following 12 months’s Under-19 World Cup.
While the ladies’s choice panel is about for a significant revamp with a majority of its members, together with chief selector Neetu David, having served the utmost permissible restrict of 5 years. With the squad for the ODI World Cup having been chosen earlier within the week, the ladies’s nationwide choice panel could be reformulated at the beginning of the following event cycle.
