While Debasish Mohanty of the East Zone will have to make way for someone else after finishing a total of four years in the junior and senior selection panels, Chetan will have to endure an uncomfortable wait.
Chetan Sharma, the head of the national selection committee, faces an uncertain future because the BCCI may shortly restructure the senior panel following the T20 World Cup in Australia. It is no secret that Chetan and his selection committee have not been performing up to standard lately, and unless India plays really well, it may be game over for India’s first hat-trick guy in the 50-over World Cup. “The performance of India at the T20 World Cup will be crucial. Not many people at the moment are particularly pleased with Chetan. He will, however, continue to serve until BCCI names the next Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), “a senior BCCI representative stated.
While Debasish Mohanty of the East Zone will have to make way for someone else after finishing a total of four years in the junior and senior selection panels, Chetan will have to endure an uncomfortable wait.
“Debu Mohanty will be subject to the same ruling as applied to Abbey Kuruvilla. Early in 2019, the COA appointed Debu to the junior panel, where he served for two years till 2021 before getting promoted to the senior panel when Devang Gandhi’s term was over “An anonymous senior BCCI source told PTI.
Mohanty will have served his four years in a few months, at which point he must go on. The question is whether he will be let go of his responsibilities before or after the period of four years has passed.
There aren’t many qualifying Test cricketers in the East, though, who may be given the position. The two candidates are Bengal’s Deep Dasgupta and former Odisha opener Shiv Sunder Das.
Ranade Bose, a junior national selector, is rumored to be in the running, but he hasn’t participated in an official match for India. Laxmi Ratan Shukla of Bengal and Sanjay Raul of Odisha, former ODI players, are both qualified. Another potential contender is Subroto Banerjee, who is Umesh Yadav’s coach at the moment.
Similarly, the West Zone selection seat has been vacant as Kuruvilla went into operational duties at BCCI after finishing four years of service (including three years on the junior panel), which means that it needs to be filled.
The previous time around, Ajit Agarkar had the most impressive CV of any applicant, but Mumbai Cricket Association’s objections made things difficult.
The single contender for the South Zone from Karnataka, Sunil Joshi, may survive despite his lack of performance.
