Venkatesh Prasad, Nayan Mongia among 80 applicants for India's next selection committee

BCCI has received as many as around 80 applications expressing interest in being part of India's next selection committee. But sources have confirmed to India Today not too many are high profile applicants and choosing a chief selector may not come easy. Board is looking for a successor to Sandeep Patil who completes his term of 4 years at this month's AGM. Former India captains Krish

Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar and stumper Kiran More last served as chairman of selection committee.

But BCCI officials are not overly worried for profile of applicants.

"Once criteria is set it's clear what we are looking for. The idea behind age cap is to have selectors who have first hand experience of limited-overs cricket," said a source.

Junior selection committee chairman Venkatesh Prasad, 99 World Cup spinner Nikhil Chopra, former keepers Nayan Mongia, Sameer Dighe and Vijay Dahiya, former fast bowlers Abey Kuruvilla and Amit Bhandari, former spinners Nilesh Kulkarni, Aashish Kapoor and Gyanendra Pandey are some of the names to have applied.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The BCCI for the first time has invited applications through public advertisement for the post of senior, junior and women's selection committee.

The criteria laid down for selection includes an age cap of 60 years, Test or ODI experience or 50 first-class matches. The applicant should also not be involved in IPL in any capacity or be running any private cricket academies.

The process of shortlisting candidates for interview is still in progress and the new selection committee is to be appointed at the BCCI AGM on September 21.

The new selection committee however will fail to meet the criteria set by Supreme Court's Lodha committee and the BCCI continues to challenge the Lodha report legally.