BCCI to set up advisory panel of prominent cricketers

Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The BCCI on Sunday decided to set up a cricket advisory committee comprising prominent players for the overall conduct and development of the game, according to its secretary Anurag Thakur.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India working committee, which met here during the day, authorised its president Jagmohan Dalmiya to constitute the committee.

"The working committee of the BCCI authorised the president, Jagmohan Dalmiya to constitute a cricket advisory committee comprising prominent cricketers who will share their recommendations on the overall conduct and development of the game," Thakur said in a release after the meeting.

With the tenure of senior national team coach Duncan Fletcher having ended, the working committee members decided that the process to identify the coach and support staff would be undertaken by Dalmiya and Thakur.