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Ajit Agarkar replaces Chetan Sharma as Team India’s Chairman of selectors

Ajit Agarkar has officially been named the new top selector for the Senior Men’s Team of India by the Board Of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Only a few months after a new selection committee was established, Agarkar has displaced Chetan Sharma in the top position. In February, a media outlet’s undercover investigation resulted in Chetan’s being forced to leave from his position. Due to Agarkar’s appointment, the BCCI currently has two selectors from the West Zone and none from the North Zone, breaking a significant precedent in Indian cricket.

“The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), consisting of Sulakshana Naik, Ashok Malhotra, and Jatin Paranjape, recommended his na after the interviews for the said position, stated a BCCI media release.

Based on Agarkar’s seniority, the committee also nominated him for the chairmanship. Agarkar played 110 first-class, 270 List A, and 62 T20 matches in addition to 26 Tests, 191 ODIs, and four T20 matches in which he represented his nation.

The remaining members of the selection committee are Shiv Sundar Das, Salil Ankola, Subroto Banerjee, and Sridharan Sharath. Sharma, a former fast bowler as well, resigned in February after his outrageous assertions and gossip were caught on a covert camera and published by a News channel. The 57-year-old said that Sourav Ganguly and former cricket board president Sourav Kohli had an ego conflict. He further said that players frequently utilise illegal injections to pass fitness testing.

Following India’s poor showing in the T20 World Cup last year, the BCCI fired the whole selection committee; however, Sharma was eventually reinstated before he resigned.

Agarkar, who has also played four T20 Internationals for India, will serve as chairman of selectors for the second time. He previously did so for Mumbai from 2017 and 2019. For the previous two years, Agarkar was a member of the Delhi Capitals coaching staff; however, they have since broken up. Due to Agarkar’s appointment, the panel now includes two selectors from the West Zone, with Ankola serving as the other. There is no mention of selectors being nominated on a zonal basis in the BCCI constitution, which was created in accordance with the recommendations of the RM Lodha-committee; just that the five of them must have been retired for at least five years and played a specific amount of matches. The BCCI has a long-standing unwritten policy of choosing a selector from each of the five zones, although the job posting never made it clear that a candidate from a particular zone was desired.

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Agarkar must make a crucial choice about Hardik Panda’s retention of the shortest format captaincy as well as Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s future in the T201 format.
In less than two months, Agarkar must also help choose the team for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.

 

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