Srikkanth appointed new chief selector

Former India captain Krish Srikkanth today became the new chairman of the National senior cricket selection committee. He was appointed as the chief selector at the BCCI`s 79th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai. The other senior selectors are: Raja Venkat (East zone), Surendra Bhave (West zone), Narendra Hirwani (Central zone) and Yashpal Sharma (North zone). Former Mumbai and India pace bowler Abui Kuruvilla was chosen as the junior selection panel chief at the two-day meeting, the sources said. The other junior selectors picked are: Sanjay Desai (South zone) Sanjeev Sharma (North zone) Rajesh Bora (East zone) and R S Hans (Central zone). Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as the board president at the AGM and was succeeded by Shashank Manohar, will head the BCCI`s marketing committee, while Rajiv Shukla was elected as chairman of the finance committee. N Srinivasan was elected as the secretary, Sanjay Jagdale became the new joint-secretary and M P Pandove will be the new treasurer. The trio was elected unopposed, they said. Also elected unopposed were the five vice-presidents - Shivlal Yadav, Chirayu Amin, Arindam Ganguly, Arun Jaitley and Lalit Modi, the sources said. Cricket associations of three North Eastern states - Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal - were granted affiliate membership while associate membership was conferred on Chattisgarh State Cricket Association and Bihar Cricket Association. After a long delay, BCCI finally launched its official website (www.bcci.tv) today. BCC`s income has increased by leaps and bounds in 2007-08 and crossed Rs 1000.41 crore, as compared to Rs 651.81 crore in 2006-07, leading to a surpluse of Rs 303.15 crore.