RP Singh and Pragyan Ojha frontrunners for BCCI senior selectors

Former India leftarm seamer Rudra Pratap Singh and leftarm spinner Pragyan Ojha have emerged as frontrunners to join Ajit Agarkar's senior men's selection panel at the Board of Control for Cricket in India, with the Cricket Advisory Committee set to interview candidates and forward recommendations ahead of the board's annual meeting next month, officials and media reports said. If confirmed, the two appointments would fill vacancies created by the completion of two selectors' terms and take effect from next month, according to the published accounts.

The BCCI invited applications last month for two senior men's selector positions, setting eligibility that required applicants to have played at least seven Tests or 30 first class matches, or 10 ODIs and 20 first class matches, to have retired from competitive cricket at least five years earlier, and not to have served on a BCCI committee for more than five cumulative years. A range of former players applied, including Praveen Kumar, Ashish Winston Zaidi, Shakti Singh and Amay Khurasiya, but multiple reports identified RP Singh and Ojha as the strongest candidates.

RP Singh, a leftarm pacer who was part of India's 2007 T20 World...