CAC interviews 13 candidates for BCCI’s choice committee, Venkatesh Prasad not in shortlist

The Cricket Advisory Committee, appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, has interviewed 13 shortlisted candidates to type a five-member choice committee.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 2, 2023 23:17 IST

CAC interviews 13 shortlisted candidates for BCCI’s choice committee (Courtesy: BCCI Twitter)

By India Today Web Desk: The Cricket Advisory Committee, appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, has interviewed 13 shortlisted candidates to type a five-member choice committee.

The shortlisted candidates have been interviewed by CAC on Monday, however the checklist didn’t embrace former India bowler Venkatesh Prasad. The shortlist of candidates consists of the likes of Chetan Sharma, Harvinder Singh, Amay Khurasia, Ajay Ratra, SS Das, S Sharath and Connor Williams.

The BCCI invited purposes for the choice committee in November and acquired a number of purposes. Candidates like Prasad, Nayan Mongia, Maninder Singh and Subroto Banerjee utilized for the job.

Chetan Sharma was sacked together with Harvinder Singh, Sunil Joshi and Debasish Mohanty after India’s failure to convey dwelling the T20 World Cup trophy. Plenty of questions have been requested concerning the group choice within the lead-up to the T20 World Cup as India had performed as many as 30 gamers over the past 12 months.

Rohit Sharma was appointed as India’s full-time captain throughout all three codecs final 12 months, however the skipper was not in a position to be with the T20I squad always as he was rested after Test and ODI assignments.

The Sharma-led choice committee’s determination to convey again KL Rahul, who had not performed a T20I for greater than 6 months, for the Asia Cup additionally raised eyebrows and the Karnataka batter struggled on the World Cup.

Since then, India has made a number of adjustments to the aspect for the upcoming ODI and T20I sequence towards Sri Lanka. The Men in Blue are set to face their neighbors in a three-match T20I sequence, adopted by a three-game ODI sequence at dwelling.

Hardik Pandya has been handed the T20I captaincy with Suryakumar Yadav taking on the function of vice-captain. As far as ODI cricket is anxious, Rohit Sharma hangs on to his captaincy, with Pandya changing KL Rahul because the vice-captain.

Edited By:

Rounaq Sehrawat

Published On:

Jan 2, 2023