Former India Cricketer Surinder Amarnath Applies for Junior Selector’s Job

Former India batsman Surinder Amarnath has utilized for the junior selector’s place within the BCCI. The software deadline for the 5 vacancies ended final month and the BCCI will quickly get going with the choice course of. Surinder, the son of the nice Lala Amarnath, performed 10 Tests and three ODIs for India. He performed as many as 145 first-class video games and scored greater than 8000 runs.

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“Our national team is doing well. It is mainly because of the robust structure in place that we keep producing good cricketers. I hope to unearth more of that talent as a junior selector if given the opportunity,” the 72-year-old advised PTI.

Besides his wealthy expertise of taking part in the sport, Surinder additionally has substantial teaching expertise. He spent three years in Morocco, growing the sport from scratch and was additionally chief advisor for Goa Cricket Association.

Surinder scored a Test century on debut, in opposition to New Zealand in Auckland in 1974. He shared a 204-run stand with Sunil Gavaskar in the identical recreation. As a young person, Amarnath scored a memorable century at Lord’s for Indian Schools Test Team in opposition to England Schools, wherein he hit two sixes off the final two balls when India wanted 9 runs for victory.

Meanwhile, the BCCI has nonetheless not dedicated to compensate the home gamers loss in revenue as a result of curtailed 2020-21 season amid Covid-19 pandemic. “We may think on those lines. But it also depends on what the state cricket associations think. We need to talk to the state bodies for it,” an official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) advised IANS.

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On the opposite hand, a state official stated that if BCCI does resolve to compensate the gamers, it will likely be troublesome to search out out which all gamers performed. “The state associations will have to provide the list of players who played last year and who might have played this year. Deciding on who all would have played this year may be a tough thing to do,” a state physique official advised IANS.

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