Mumbai: The quest for a new Team India coach is expected to end on September 27 when the BCCI’s coach selection committee will meet and decide on the matter.
According to BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah, they are scrutinising 15 to 20 applications. “We will send them to the members of the coach selection committee which will meet around September 27,” he said on Tuesday.

Incidentally, the BCCI’s AGM is scheduled on September 28 and any decision taken by the coach selection committee, which has three former captains S. Venkatraghavan, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri on it, can be immediately vetted by the supreme body.

India A squad for one-dayers

Mumbai: Mohammed Kaif was on Tuesday retained as India A skipper for the three-match limited overs series against the South Africa A team.

Meanwhile, India A look to wrap up the “Test” series against South Africa A in the final four-dayer beginning at Dharamsala from Wednesday.

India A squad for one-dayers: Mohammed Kaif (captain), Parthiv Patel (vice captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Karan Goel, Manoj Tiwary, Suresh Raina, S. Badrinath, Praveen Kumar, Praghyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Yo Mahesh, Pankaj Singh, Arjun Yadav, Abhishek Nayar, Anirudh Srikkanth.

Pak policy

Karachi: Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday announced its new selection policy, giving gives the team manager power to finalise the XI on away tours with the selection committee having the final say in a home series.

“On away tours like in the ICC World Twenty20, the manager, coach and captain will select the playing eleven and the selectors’ job is only to give them the touring squad,” an official explained.

Murali in

Colombo: Muttiah Muralidharan was on Tuesday included in a 15-member squad for the five-match ODI series against England next month.
He has been recovering from a muscle tendon tear in his right bicep.