In what could be a major development, the new senior men's cricket team 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.
BCCI, on Friday, sacked the senior national selection committee led by Chetan Sharma.
The Men in Blue were humiliated by 10 wickets by England in the semifinal in Adelaide on November 10. It was India's fifth knockout loss in the last six World Cups.
India last won an ICC tournament in 2013 when they beat England to claim the Champions Trophy.
During Chetan Sharma’s tenure, India had also failed to reach knock-out stage in the 2021 edition of T20 World Cup and lost the World Test Championships final. The qualification criteria for the new selection committee remains 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.
