“No,” Sehwag replied when TOI asked him about any such offer being made.
This comes four months after Chetan Sharma was asked to resign from national selection committee chairman’s post for revealing classified information about the Indian team.
The BCCI has formally invited applications to fill the post vacated by the former pacer. The last date of submitting application is June 30, and it is expected that the new selection committee member would be a part of the panel that will pick the squad for the Ireland series, and before that, he is likely to watch the Deodhar Trophy Inter-Zonal competition.
Since then, ex-India player Shiv Sunder Das has been operating as the interim chief selector, with S Sharath (south), Subroto Banerjee (central) and Salil Ankola (west) as other members of the panel.
BCCI puts out ad for selector’s post The BCCI on Thursday put out an advertisement on its website for the position of member of the men’s selection committee.The selected candidate is likely to be the new chief selector of the committee.The candidate should have a) played seven Tests or b) 30 firstclass matches, or c) 10 ODIs and 20 first-class matches.
He should have retired from the game at least five years previously.
At a time when there are calls for a transition in the team, the new selector will be required to “plan and prepare a strong bench strength” and “appoint a captain for the team in each format”
According to a report by PTI, while some like Lucknow Super Giants mentor Gautam Gambhir (retired December 2018), Yuvraj Singh (retired July 2019) and cricketer turned media pundit Harbhajan Singh (retired 2022) are big names from up North, they don’t technically qualify as they haven’t completed five years of retirement on the date of application.
The only big name who is eligible is Virender Sehwag but it is a well-known fact that Sehwag, who is an analyst on various platforms and someone who earns a handsome amount from promotional activities, won’t be interested in the job if the salary is Rs 1 crore. The rest of the panel members get Rs 90 lakh.
“There is nothing cast in stone that BCCI needs chairman from North Zone since Chetan held the post. They can bring in someone like a Vivek Razdan, Ajay Ratra, Reetinder Singh Sodhi or Atul Wassan and continue with SS Das (23 Tests) as the new chairman,” said a BCCI source to PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
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