New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI) Exactly four months after Chetan Sharma was asked to resign from national selection committee chairman’s post for revealing classified information about the Indian team, the BCCI has formally invited applications to fill the post vacated by the former pacer.

The last date of submitting application is June 30, and it is expected that the new selection committee member would be a part of the panel that will pick the squad for the Ireland series, and before that, he is likely to watch the Deodhar Trophy Inter-Zonal competition.

The criteria is no different from earlier years as one needs to play either seven Tests or 10 ODIs or at least 30 first-class matches with five years of retirement from active cricket.

Chetan’s committee was sacked after the T20 World Cup debacle but he reapplied, and was reappointed, when the new panel took over in December last year.

However, the sting operation made his position untenable and he was asked to resign after most members of the Indian team didn’t want to sit across the table with him.

“Technically, Chetan can apply if he wants to as he had resigned. Obviously, whether he would apply or not is a big question but rules can’t stop him from applying once again,” a senior BCCI official told

Source: PTI News