Gagan Khoda

With Ajit Agarkar seeking extension on his tenure as chief selector until the 2027 ODI World Cup, the BCCI is considering his request following India's recent ICC title wins. Discussions are ongoing regarding his future and potential successors. The board faces a decision as India prepares for upcoming tournaments and potential player transitions.

The BCCI has approached former India all-rounder Madan Lal to be a member of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) which will pick a few members of the senior selection committee. The term of two of the members, chairman MSK Prasad, and Gagan Khoda has expired.

Both were removed in January last year from the selection panel for not being Test cricketers as per the requirement set by the Lodha committee.

The national cricket selection panel is set to shrink in the wake of Supreme Court's order to implement the Lodha Committee reforms and both Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe will have to leave as they don't conform to the set norms.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Monday said the two replacements in the selection panel will be picked by the end of this month.

With only a couple of weeks left for the start of inter-state tournaments, the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) is on its way to becoming one of the last state units to name a head coach for its senior team.

Former India spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan was the first one to appear before the Cricket Advisory Committee which is conducting interviews to pick two national selectors here on Wednesday.

The final voter list of 36 eligible office bearers from district cricket associations including former international players for the upcoming Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) polls to be held on September 30 was announced by the election officer Ram Lubhaya on Sunday.

PATNA: Leading cricketers of the country, including Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Md Kaif and Gautam Gambhir will participate in Karma Invitational Cup day-night cricket tournament at Darbhanga from May 12 to 14, informed former Indian Test player and national selector, Kirti Azad, here on Saturday at a press conference.

Jatin Paranjpe, who, along with Gagan Khoda, was reinstated by the BCCI as a national selector last week, quit as Mumbai selector on Saturday.

The revamped selection committee with a new chairman at helm will pick the Indian squad for the three ODIs at home in March, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said on Monday.

TOI understands that the contracts handed out by the BCCI are subject to renewal at the board’s annual general meeting (AGM). Since the board failed to call its AGM last year, there has been no progress in this matter.

Former India pacer Rudra Pratap Singh on Saturday thanked the BCCI for appointing him as a member of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) and said he will give his best in his new role.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday confirmed that the new selection panel will pick the squad for the upcoming ODI series against South Africa.

Rohit Sharma has been replaced by Siddhesh Lad in the Indian Oil team, while Mayank Tehlan has come in for ONGC in their revised squads for the Corporate Trophy.

The BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) will finally get down to the work of picking two national selectors at its first meeting on Tuesday.

Opener Prithvi Shaw has passed his fitness test and should be joining the India A squad in New Zealand soon. Shaw had recently suffered a shoulder injury while diving to save an overthrow during Mumbai's Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka at the MCA's BKC ground.

BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee member Madan Lal says two new selectors will be in office by the time the national team's tour of New Zealand winds up early next month. Former India cricketers RP Singh and Sulkashana Naik are the other two members of the CAC, which has been tasked to find replacements for outgoing chairman of selectors MSK Prasad and panel member Gagan Khoda.

Chairman of the selection committee MSK Prasad has lashed out at former wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer for deriving "sadistic pleasure out of indulging in petty talk" after the 82-year-old former India cricketer commented that selectors served tea to India captain Virat Kohli's wife Anushka Sharma during World Cup.

Veteran Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is hoping that BCCI president Sourav Ganguly will "change" the current selection panel and bring "strong people" on board.

On a day Delhi plummeted to another embarrassing defeat by an innings margin against Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy, Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) president Rohan Jaitley held selectors Gagan Khoda, Mayank Sidana and Anil Bhardwaj accountable for the poor show.

Jatin Paranjpe and Gagan Khoda are set to be removed from the BCCI senior selection panel after the Board was clearly told to trim to the panel to three members in place of five, as recommended by the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee.

On Sunday, the BCCI's apex council decided that India will be playing a day-night Test in Australia later this year followed by hosting of one such game at home when England come to India next February. "A formal announcement will come soon. Day-night Tests will be a regular feature from now on," BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said after the meeting.

While the new dispensation at the BCCI has decided to scale back the tenure of national selectors from five years to four, the reduction in term is likely to apply to only the present bunch of selectors.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Tuesday offered a job to Unmukt Chand, star captain of Under-19 world champion cricket team.

Sticking to zonal system, BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) on Wednesday sprung a surprise by naming former India left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi as the new chairman of the senior national selection committee and also picked ex-pacer Harvinder Singh for the five-member panel.

The selection committee, headed by MSK Prasad, is nowhere close to completing its tenure as per the new BCCI constitution but new Board president Sourav Ganguly will decide whether the panel completes the mandated five years in office.