Amita sharma

Cricket Advisory Committee: Thursday was a marathon day of interviews for the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) in terms of filling seven vacancies across the senior men’s, senior women’s, and junior men’s national selection committees. Last month, the BCCI had earlier invited applications for filling two positions in the senior men’s committee, four positions in the senior women’s panel, and one in the junior men’s committee.

For the vacant senior men’s selectors posts, former India players R.P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha, and Amay Khurasiya were interviewed. The selected candidates will be needed to replace the outgoing duo of S. Sharath (South Zone) and Subroto Banerjee (Central Zone).

Though former men’s pacer Praveen Kumar had also applied for being a member of the committee, IANS understands that Praveen was asked to apply at the last minute. It is also understood that while Pragyan Ojha is a front-runner to replace Sharath from South Zone, there could be a toss-up between Singh and Khurasiya for the slot from the Central Zone.