The next selection panel of Indian cricket team will go through the same process, what was followed for the appointment of the Coach recently. In an attempt to remove interference of any political factor, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) decided that “the selectors should be appointed for two years and that the appointment of selectors and coach should be free from any political influence.”

“Accordingly, instead of directly appointing selectors, there should be as provision whereby the general body appoints a professional committee comprising reputed former cricketers (like the cricket advisory committee) and this professional committee can, in turn, appoint selectors as well as the coach.”

Former Indian batsmen Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman form this cricket advisory committee together.

A BCCI source revealed to TOI “After seeing how the selectors are appointed at times in the general body, we are of the opinion that the power to appoint the selectors should be handed completely to the CAC.”

Meanwhile, the CoA took another decision during the same meeting on October 27 about the selectors Gagan Khoda and Jatin Paranjpe, which reads “selectors whose services had not been utilized after Jan 2017 should be relived as of Sept 30 and payments till that date should be made since their contracts hadn’t been terminated earlier.”

Thus, now only former Test players can feature in the selection panel of the national team, which was a recommendation of Lodha Panel. One source within BCCI said, “selectors whose services had not been utilized after Jan 2017 should be relived as of Sept 30 and payments till that date should be made since their contracts hadn’t been terminated earlier.”