The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will take a decision on senior men’s chief selector Ajit Agarkar’s future within the next 15 days, said Secretary Devajit Saikia after the 95th Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place here on Friday.
The BCCI has also introduced a merit-based promotion and demotion mechanism to foster accountability among match officials. “Today, there has been no discussion about any individual. Addressing the ongoing proceedings before the Supreme Court regarding the matter, Saikia said, “So, as of today, there is nothing like that, which was mentioned in the Supreme Court that day.
So we have done a restructuring of their categories. Now we have restructured it as A, B, C and D. Those umpires who are at the upper level, if they are not performing up to that level or they are a satisfactory level, they will be downgraded. “There are six months left. We will take a call after a few days. We haven’t received any such requests as of now about the change of venue for the Ranchi Test. We will give the clarification on 27th of October, when the matter will be listed next time.”
Agarkar, who assumed the chief selector’s role in July 2023, has been a part of a successful period for the national side. Under his term as chief selector, India reached the 2023 ODI World Cup final, won the 2024 T20 World Cup, the 2025 Champions Trophy, and retained the T20 World Cup title at home earlier this year. His term ends on October 4, and the BCCI will have to make a decision as India enters the final leg of preparations for the 2027 Men’s ODI World Cup. We still have 15 days to go. In a major administrative decision, the BCCI has approved a substantial fee revision for domestic umpires and match referees, marking the first compensation enhancement since the 2017/18 season. “Since 2017-18, there was no revision of the fees of the umpires. “Those who will be doing good, 10 umpires will be upgraded to the next level. 10 umpires will go up, 10 umpires will go down,” he added. Saikia also quashed rumours over a possible change of venue for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Ranchi, scheduled to be held from February 19 to 23, 2027.
We will take a decision and in appropriate time, we will let you know,” Saikia told reporters. All their fees per day has been enhanced substantially,” said Saikia.
Earlier there were four categories, A+, A, B and C.
