Maninder Singh, SS Das apply for Group India selector put up | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Former left-arm spinner Maninder Singh, opener Shiv Sunder Das and wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia have been the distinguished names amongst a number of candidates who’ve utilized for the India senior selectors’ posts. The deadline for the functions closed on Monday (November 28) and it’s understood that greater than 50 individuals have utilized for the job however there aren’t too many heavyweights within the fray.
Mongia (44 Exams), Maninder (35 Exams) and Das (21 Exams) are essentially the most skilled within the 50-plus candidates listing.
Again in 2021, Maninder had utilized for the job however was pipped by Chetan Sharma. On the time, Sharma was most well-liked by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Madan Lal.
It could not be confirmed whether or not former pacer Ajit Agarkar has utilized or not. Based on many, Agarkar has a sure-shot likelihood of changing into choice committee chairman together with his worldwide credentials, if he decides to use.
Salil Ankola, present chairman of senior Mumbai group, former keeper Samir Dighe and the flamboyant Vinod Kambli are mentioned to have utilized from Mumbai.
“Yes, I have applied,” Maninder confirmed to PTI.
Sources within the know confirmed that Das, who’s at the moment senior Punjab group’s batting coach, has utilized and with East Zone barely producing Check gamers of reputation, he stands an excellent likelihood to turn out to be a selector.
However, it’s not confirmed if Das’ residence state Odisha will again his candidature.
Final time, Agarkar, regardless of being the favorite, did not get the job as the previous MCA regime hadn’t backed him because the officers needed Abey Kuruvilla.
The opposite names from North zone are light-weight former cricketers.
From North zone, aside from Maninder, Atul Wassan, Nikhil Chopra (Delhi), Ajay Ratra (Haryana) and Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Punjab) are former India gamers who’ve thrown their hat into the ring.
From East zone, save Das, different names are actually light-weight. They embody Prabhanjan Mullick, Rashmi Ranjan Parida from Odisha, Subhamoy Das, Saradindu Mukherjee and Sourasish Lahiri from Bengal.
Deep Dasgupta and Laxmi Ratan Shukla (present Bengal coach) — two former India gamers — have determined towards making use of.
From central zone, Amay Khurasiya of Madhya Pradesh and Gyanendra Pandey of Uttar Pradesh are believed to have utilized.
Whereas there aren’t any written guidelines, BCCI usually believes in conference of equal distribution and therefore 5 junior and 5 senior selectors in latest instances have been from 10 completely different states.
So, junior choice committee has one from Tamil Nadu (S Sharath), Bengal (Ranadeb Bose), MP (Harvinder Sodhi), Punjab (Krishan Mohan) and Gujarat (Pathik Patel).
Therefore, it’s anticipated that candidates from these 5 states are prone to be excluded.
From Tamil Nadu, distinguished names like L Sivaramakrishnan and WV Raman have not utilized.
Nonetheless, former Hyderabad off-spinner Kanwaljeet Singh has utilized for the job as a South zone candidate.
(With inputs from PTI)