BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said that there will be no extension for the members of the selection committee whose term have ended, citing “you cannot go beyond” that. According to the Board’s old constitution, there was a provision for a maximum four-year term for the selection panel, led by MSK Prasad and his colleague Gagan Khoda’s terms have expired. Both of them were appointed in 2015, whereas Jatin Paranjpe, Sarandeep Singh and Devang Gandhi, have joined them in 2016 and they have one more year left in their respective term.

“Tenures are finished (means) tenures are finished. They have done a good job. You cannot go beyond your tenure and all of them don’t finish, so majority of them stay and I dont think it should be a problem,” Sourav Ganguly said. “As you must have heard, ICC now wants tournaments every year, that does not mean selectors continue forever. We will have a tenure and we will (heed) to the tenure.”

Going by Sourav Ganguly’s statements, the new selectors will have five-year terms from now on.

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“There term is five years, they can stay for five years, but what we will do is that we will fix a term for selectors and appoint them. We are fine with it. (Just) because we are not involved that does not mean the selectors are bad, they have done a good job, the team has done well and we don’t have any problem,” he said while he was asked about his opinion on the performance of the Prasad-led selection committee.

Although the Indian team enjoyed plenty of success during the five-man selection panel’s tenure, they often faced relentless criticism owing to their limited international careers collectively and sometimes due to the selection as well.