Vengsarkar, 64, said the new Supreme Court-approved constitution of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) mentions upper age limit as 70 years for office-bearers, and which can be applied to selectors, too, and not the 60-year bar, which is an "absurd rule" and "detrimental to Indian cricket".
The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) should be scrapped, and selectors should be appointed by the apex councils — both of the Indian cricket board and of its affiliates — to bring transparency to the selection of selectors while the 60-year cap for selectors is unconstitutional and it is used by administrators "to push their own people" in the selection committee, says former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar.
Vengsarkar, 64, said the new Supreme Court-approved constitution of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) mentions upper age limit as 70 years for office-bearers, and which can be applied to selectors, too, and not the 60-year bar, which is an "absurd rule" and "detrimental to Indian cricket".
"CAC should be scrapped and selectors should be appointed by the apex councils, both of the BCCI and the state associations. After all, the selectors are appointed by the BCCI president, indirectly. So, it is better to get rid of the CAC. Apex council appointing selectors will be fairer than if the CAC appoints them; it will be 100 per cent fair because they will definitely come up with a few names and can gang up. But it will definitely be fairer," Vengsarkar said.
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