bcci: BCCI sacks Chetan Sharma-led Indian senior cricket team selection committee

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday sacked chief selector Chetan Sharma and the entire senior national selection committee.

The council took to Twitter to invite applications for the position of national selectors. The last date of application is 28 November.

NEWS: BCCI invites applications for the post of National Selectors (Senior Men). Details: https://t.co/inkWOSoMt9

– BCCI (@BCCI) 1668785618000

The decision comes days after Team India’s poor performance in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2022. The Men in Blue lost to England by 10 wickets and were thus eliminated from the competition.

During Chetan’s tenure, India also failed to reach the knock-out stage in the 2021 edition of the T20 World Cup and lost the World Test Championship final.

Chetan (North Zone), Harvinder Singh (Central Zone), Sunil Joshi (South Zone) and Debashish Mohanty (East Zone) have had the shortest tenures as senior national selectors in recent times. Some of these were appointed in 2020 and some in 2021.

A senior national selector normally gets a tenure of four years, subject to extension. There was no selector from West Zone after Abhay Kuruvilla’s tenure ended.

(with inputs from agencies)

Originally published at Pen 18