Sivaramakrishnan likely to head national selection panel
The HinduAccording to the new constitution of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, “the senior most Test cap among the members of the committee shall be appointed as the chairman.” Among the three candidates vying for the two vacancies, L. Sivaramakrishnan, Venkatesh Prasad and Ajit Agarkar - the tenures of selection panel chief M.S.K. Prasad, a crafty seamer, first played a Test against England in 1996 at Birmingham, and went to figure in 33 Tests, 161 ODIs and 123 first class games. READ | The BCCI’s qualifying yardstick for senior national selectors are: 1: Seven Test matches or, 2: 30 first class matches or, 3. Ajit Agarkar donned the Test cap only in the late 90s and Venkatesh Prasad, who made his Test debut in the mid-90s, has completed one and a half years as a BCCI junior selector which leave his position in the senior panel a tad uncertain.