India national cricket team selectors


Indian National Cricket Selectors is a committee of cricket administrators whose responsibility is the selection of cricket team to represent India at various levels. The term for the selectors was increased from 1-year to 2 years in 2006 with a provision for an additional year based on performance.
Technically, there are 2 groups of selectors:

All India Senior Selection Committee: Responsibilities includes selection of teams for

1. Sunil Joshi
2. Devang Gandhi
3. Jatin Pranjpe
4. Sarandeep Singh
5. Harvinder Singh

Committee composition

The selection committee consists of 5 members and a convenor. Only the 5 members of the selection committee have voting rights on team selection. The convenor is the Secretary, BCCI for the senior selection team and Jr. Secretary for junior selection team.
The 5 members in the selection committee were traditionally selected from the 5 cricket zones – North Zone, Central Zone, West Zone, East Zone, South Zone. One of the 5 members is selected by BCCI as the Chairman of the selection committee. Under pressure from the Lodha committee recommendation, the BCCI scrapped the zonal system in 2016
The Captain and Coach are invited to the selection committee meetings to present their opinions on team players though the captain and coach do not have voting rights in team selection.

Issues with Selection Committee composition based on the Zonal system

In August 2018, the Committee of Administrators increased the salary of national selectors in a meeting. In the meeting, It was decided that the remuneration of the members of the selection committee be increased to per annum, while the chairman of the panel will now get .
Meanwhile, the remuneration of the members of the junior selection committee has been increased to per annum with the chairman of the panel now supposed to get per annum.
The salaries of the Women's selection committee has also been increased with the members now getting per annum and chief selector set to receive per annum.