Prasad has replaced Sandeep Patil as the chairman of selectors.
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Former Indian fast-bowler Venkatesh Prasad will continue as the junior selection panel chief.
While, incumbent Ajay Shirke was elected unopposed as the BCCI Secretary at the Board’s 87th Annual General Meeting here.
MSK Prasad is Indian cricket’s new chairman of selectors.
Last year, Prasad was appointed as selector in place of Roger Binny from South Zone.
The 45-year-old Gandhi, who has four Tests and three ODIs to his credit, will be representing the east zone, while Paranjpe will be west zone’s representative. Former offspinner Sarandeep Singh, and former batsmen Gagan Khoda, Devang Gandhi and Jatin Paranjpe were the other four selectors named in the five-member panel. The Lodha panel had allowed the BCCI to hold the AGM, on conditions that they do not take any major decisions, which may affect the future of the board.
Significantly, the Lodha panel has also fixed staggered deadlines for the full adoption of its reforms as approved by the Supreme Court and has also directed the BCCI that tomorrow’s AGM must be “limited only to routine business concerning the past year (2015-16)”. We have done tours to Zimbabwe, Australia only at the end of the season. Sandy bhai’s team has done a fantastic job. He made his ODI debut against Bangladesh at Mohali in May, 1998. He played the first of his six Tests in 1999 against New Zealand at Mohali.
He featured in 96 first-class matches, amassing 4,021 runs at an average of 27.73 and claimed 266 dismissals.
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He announced his retirement from the game in 2008 and later served as Andhra Cricket Association’s director for six years.
