BCCI drops hints of split captaincy; new selection panel may pick Rohit in ODIs, Test, Hardik in T20Is

Split
captaincy
has
been
talked
over
many
times
in
the
past
too,
but
never
really
made
practical
as
neither
the
BCCI
or
the
team
management
found
it
particularly
appealing.

Now,
we
might
just
see
a
change.
The
new
selection
committee,
as
and
when
it
takes
charge,
will
be
mandated
to
choose
captains
across
three
formats
which
effectively
means
that
BCCI
will
be
going
for
split
captaincy.

This
could
mean
that
Rohit
Sharma
will
remain
captain
in
ODIs
and
Test
cricket
for
the
time
being
while
Hardik
Pandya
becomes
the
shortest
format
leader
till
2024
T20
World
Cup
in
USA
and
West
Indies.

The
qualification
criteria
for
the
selectors
remained
the
same.
The
age
cap
is
60
years
and
the
incumbent
would
have
to
be
retired
from
active
cricket
for
at
least
five
years.
He
has
to
play
at
least
seven
Test
matches
or
30
first-class
games
or
10
ODIs
along
with
20
first-class
games.

The
job
domain
has
two
key
points
which
had
never
been
in
any
earlier
selection
committee
advertisements
—
prepare
and
provide
evaluation
report
of
respective
team
performance
to
the
Apex
Council
of
BCCI
on
quarterly
basis,
and
appoint
captain
for
the
team
in
each
format.

Also
for
the
first
time,
the
BCCI
job
domain
description
contains
that
the
chairman
would
have
to
address
the
media
with
regards
to
team
related
queries.

Chetan
Sharma
(North
zone),
Harvinder
Singh
(Centra
Zone),
Sunil
Joshi
(South
Zone)
and
Debasish
Mohanty
(East
Zone)
have
had
the
shortest
stint
as
senior
national
selectors
in
recent
times.

Joshi
and
Harvinder
were
appointed
national
selectors
in
February
2020.
After
the
AGM
in
January
2021,
Chetan
took
over
as
chairman
of
selectors
with
Mohanty
and
Kuruvilla
joining
him.

A
senior
national
selector
normally
gets
a
four-year
term
subject
to
extension.

There
was
no
selector
from
West
Zone
after
Abbey
Kuruvilla’s
tenure
ended.

Once,
India
lost
in
the
semifinal
of
the
T20
World
Cup,
the
writing
was
always
on
the
wall
that
Chetan
was
on
borrowed
time.