The Supreme Court verdict on Justice RM lodha committee’s landmark reforms for BCCI is all set to affect the senior national selection committee’s composition as selector Gagan Khoda will have to make an early exit.
A major rejig in the selection committee could be on cards with current chairman Sandeep Patil along with Vikram Rathour and Saba Karim ending their four-year-tenure in September and the new selection committee is expected to be a three-member panel.
The other two in the panel are Central Zone’s Gagan Khoda and South’s MSK Prasad, who were appointed in October 2015 and as per earlier rules would have continued till 2019.
As per lodha Committee recommendations, “Only former Players who have represented the Senior National Team in Test matches shall be eligible to be appointed to this committee, provided that they have retired from the game at least five years previously. The senior-most Test cap among the members of the Committee shall be appointed as the Chairperson.”
A source close to the Supreme Court-appointed panel said that as per directives, Khoda will have to eventually vacate his position as national selector but the BCCI probably will keep him for six months knowing that it is the stipulated time to set the house in order.
“Since the constitution will change as per reforms suggested by the panel and verdict passed by the Apex Court, BCCI can take six months of time. So perhaps BCCI will try to keep the selectors in question (Khoda) till that time but eventually, they will need to follow the rule,” a source close to the panel said.