The deadline for purposes closed on Monday (November 28), with the BCCI now more likely to appoint a Cricket Advisory Committee to conduct interviews earlier than saying their choice. The primary project for the brand new choice panel shall be to select the Indian staff for the limited-overs collection at residence towards Sri Lanka in 2023.
Within the meantime, the outgoing panel, led by Chetan Sharma, will stay in place. Its members are at present following the knockout phases of the continued Vijay Hazare Trophy, the home 50-overs competitors, in addition to the Cooch Behar Trophy.
Das is at present contracted to Punjab as a batting coach. Previous to that, he was one of many coaches on the Nationwide Cricket Academy and had stints with the Indian girls’s staff. If Das is appointed – quite a few his contemporaries consider so – he shall be changing his former Odisha team-mate Debasis Mohanty. Mohanty, the previous India quick bowler, has accomplished his five-year time period as a selector, having beforehand served in junior cricket.
Badani is one other sturdy candidate understood to be within the race, a growth he did not categorically verify nor deny. He at present works with Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL as a fielding coach and has had a profitable monitor report within the TNPL as head coach of Chepauk Tremendous Gillies, who’ve received three titles back-to-back (the 2022 title was shared).
The present choice committee consists of three members who can reapply for his or her jobs and whereas it couldn’t be confirmed whether or not Chetan and Harvinder Singh will accomplish that, it’s learnt that Sunil Joshi shall be stepping away. That leaves the place of the west zone selector, which has anyway been vacant because the tenure of Abey Kuruvilla ended late final yr.
In the meantime, Deep Dasgupta and Laxmi Ratan Shukla, the opposite names doing rounds from the east, have confirmed they have not utilized. Dasgupta is now a broadcaster whereas Shukla is at present head coach of the Bengal staff, having taken over simply six months in the past from Arun Lal.
Among the many new candidates, Mongia has already been a part of a range committee – at each the junior and senior degree – at Baroda. With 44 Assessments and 140 ODIs, he’s additionally among the many senior-most candidates within the fray. Mumbai’s Sameer Dighe and Salil Ankola, together with UP’s Gyanendra Pandey and Punjab’s Reetinder Sodhi have additionally expressed curiosity within the job. Ajit Agarkar, who was among the many few high-profile candidates from final time, hasn’t utilized this time.
ESPNcricinfo had earlier misreported L Sivaramakrishnan’s candidature. The error is regretted
