Three-year term proposed for selectors

The tenure of Indian selectors will get reduced to three years if the recommendations of the BCCI's constitutional review commitee are approved in the special general body meeting of the board today in Mumbai.

The Shashank Manohar-led committee recommended that the current four-year term be reduced to three years, while retaining the zonal five-man selection panel for both the senior and junior national selection committee.

"The zonal system is being retained as this is the best system, otherwise we cannot cover such a large country like ours," Niranjan Shah, the secretary of the BCCI and convenor of the review committee, told the Hindustan Times. There has been demand within and outside the board for scrapping the system of appointing selectors on a regional basis, and to replace it with a more transparent system.

Where tenure is concerned, the idea is to make the selectors' term the same as that of the board's office bearers. A BCCI official added that the review committee felt that a three-year term would give the selection panel a reasonable opportunity to frame policies and work towards the implementation of the same.

The changes can be put to effect only by securing a two-third majority from among the 31 members of the board - 30 BCCI-affiliated units and the president.