Hohns to chair selection panel, Greg Chappell named interim selector

Greg Chappell will join Australia's national selection panel and Trevor Hohns will serve as chairman, after the departure of Rod Marsh from the role on Wednesday. Both appointments have been made on an interim basis only, following an extraordinary meeting of the Cricket Australia board on Wednesday night.

Hohns has served on the national selection panel since 2014 in his current tenure, but previously sat on the panel from 1993 to 2006, including 10 years as chairman. Initially, he had continued in his role as Queensland's state talent manager while also serving on the national panel, but will now relinquish that job to focus full-time on selection duties.

Chappell has had two previous stints as a national selector, first from 1984 to 1988, shortly after his retirement as a player, and again from 2010 to 2011, before he took up the role of Cricket Australia's national talent manager. Chappell will step aside from that position while he serves as an interim national selector.

"It is vital that Australian cricket finds the best candidate for this role," Cricket Australia's chairman David Peever said. "Trevor is highly experienced as a selector, and will ensure we place our best players on the field this summer while we seek a permanent replacement for Rod.

"Greg has been instrumental in restructuring our youth pathway program, driving the National Performance Squad, the introduction of a CA XI squad in the domestic one-day cup and creating clear pathways for talented youth in Australian cricket to aspire to wear the baggy green. His in-depth knowledge of up-and-coming talent in the Australian system will be invaluable.''

The board will now begin a search for permanent national selectors, with no deadline having been set. Marsh's tenure was originally to have ended in June next year.