The three-member senior National selection panel will soon have a greater responsibility than merely picking cricket teams to represent India.
Once the Committee of Administrators (COA) starts to put in place the Lodha Committee recommendations, the selectors will recommend the head coach and other support staff to the Apex Council.
The junior and women’s selectors will perform similar roles. The three panels will be known as ‘Cricket Committees’.
According to the ‘reforms in cricket’ report, “The men’s selection committee shall select the ... team for representation in Tests, one-day internationals, Twenty20 and any other format. This committee shall also be responsible for vetting and selecting coaches and support staff (physiotherapists, trainers, therapists, analysts and medics) for the respective teams, as well as providing evaluation reports of the respective team performances to the Apex Council on a quarterly basis.”
The Lodha Committee has also said that one of the CEO’s functions would be to appoint the team officials.
With no permanent manager in place, Rahul Johri may be looking to appoint one or recommend a name to the COA.
The Apex Council, according to the new terms, “shall exercise superintendence over the CEO, the Cricket Committees and the Standing Committees in the discharge of their duties generally, and in particular, in accordance with any general or special direction of the General Body, except for the Governing Council of the IPL which is directly accountable to the General Body.”
It will be a interesting to see how the selection committees go about the business of finding the coaching and support staff. Anil Kumble was chosen as head coach last June for a 12-month period following a decision by the then BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke.
A Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) — consisting of Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman and Sourav Ganguly, and appointed by the late Board president Jagmohan Dalmiya — was tasked with interviewing candidates.
