Ajit Agarkar to Provide Update to Fellow Selectors Before BCCI Meeting

Agarkar will be meeting with BCCI officials in the upcoming days for a series-review meeting, following consultations with the selection committee. The meeting will also be attended by captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir. Additionally, the board’s Special General Meeting (SGM) is set to take place in Mumbai on Sunday, during which Devajit Saikia will be officially appointed as the new BCCI secretary.

The Australian tour, which immediately followed the 0-3 rout at home to New Zealand, was expected to decide the fate of many senior players. The 3-1 loss shut the door on India’s WTC final hopes, which is seen as a big setback. Off-spinner R Ashwin’s mid-tour retirement and return home, murmurs of team discontent on tour, Rohit’s free fall in form that resulted in his sitting out the final Test at Sydney and the prolonged lean run of Virat Kohli has left Indian cricket faced with several searching questions. All these are likely to be addressed in a number of formal and informal meetings among selectors and the administrators in the coming days.

The selectors will soon picking the squad for the white-ball matches at home against England — five T20s and three ODIs between January 22 and February 12 — before they firm up the squad for the ICC Champions Trophy starting next month.

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