The BCCI continues to pursue cost savings this year and will now sell business class domestic flight travel to only the senior and junior national team chief selectors, according to a report in a leading newspaper.
Even the general managers of BCCI will, from now on, have to fly economy class inside India.
All selectors will, however, be given business class seats for flights longer than seven hours, and the new rules will only be enforced for flights within the seven-hour travel span.
Who Would Fly Business Class:
That means that only Sunil Joshi and Ashish Kapoor, the chairmen of the senior and junior selection committees respectively, are entitled to travel business class on all BCCI-funded trips.
The men’s senior selection committee is formed by Joshi along with Sarandeep Singh, Harvinder Singh, Devang Gandhi, and Jatin Paranjpe. At the same time, the junior selectors are Kapoor, Debashish Mohanty, Amit Sharma, Gyanendra Pandey, and Rakesh Parikh.
All the selectors flew economy class until 2013, and this had to be modified after some selectors complained they felt inferior seeing players seated in business class seats on the same trip.
However, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah now claim that by reducing the number of business class seats on domestic flights, the board will end up saving a lot of money.
Team For Women’s Selection Yet To Be Formed:
As far as the women’s selection committee is concerned, a new one has yet to be named by the Indian cricket board since the preceding term has recently ended.
