MUMBAI: Former India pacer Ajit Agarkar was on Tuesday named as the men's chief selector at a critical time for Indian cricket, when the ODI World Cup is just three months away, and calls for a transition growing louder in recent times due to certain unfavourable results. The 45-year-old Mumbaikar has replaced another former India pacer Chetan Sharma, who had to step down in February due to his loose comments in a sting operation conducted by a news channel.
Interestingly, it is perhaps for the first time that the BCCI has dumped the 'zonal formula' while appointing a national selector, as Agarkar's former Mumbai and India teammate Salil Ankola, who is already a part of the committee, is also from the West Zone. Shiv Sunder Das, Subroto Banerjee and S Sharath are the other members of the panel.
