Aashish Kapoor to head BCCI junior selection committee

NEW DELHI: Former India off-spinner Aashish Kapoor has been appointed chairman of the

All-India Junior Selection Committee

, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Thursday.


Kapoor, who replaced Venkatesh Prasad as the head of the committee, will lead the three-member panel. The other two members of the selection panel are

Gyanendra Pandey

and

Rakesh Parikh

. Prasad, who quit the position in March, joined IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab for IPL 11.

Kapoor had represented India in four Tests and 17 ODIs and was a member of the national team during the 1996 ICC World Cup. He had also played 128 first-class games and 93 List A matches, taking 398 wickets and scoring 3449 runs.