BCCI president Sharad Pawar said that Dilip Vengsarkar's fate would be decided on December 16.
He is the first Indian player since Sachin Tendulkar in June 2011 to lead the rankings and ends Steve Smith's 32-month spell at the top.
Determined to ensure that its gag order is not defied, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has sent a reminder to the national selectors asking them not to write columns in newspapers as per its constitutional provisions.
Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar continues to write a newspaper column despite the Indian cricket board restraining him from airing his views to the media. His latest column appeared in Marathi newspaper 'Sakal' on Thursday.
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Former India cricketers Sandeep Patil and Sanjay Manjrekar said Rahul Dravid got a raw deal from the selectors and demanded that BCCI chief Sharad Pawar intervene in the matter.
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Selection Committee Chief Dilip Vengsarkar said a new captain will be named when the selectors meet to choose the team for the home series against Australia.
The IPL has reportedly approached chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar to take up the post of Director of Cricket Operations after he completes his term on the national selection panel in September. However, the former India captain refused to confirm or deny it.
Yusuf Pathan and Pragyan Ojha are the new faces in the India one-day squad for the tri-series in Bangladesh and subsequent Asia Cup in Pakistan. Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the two tournaments because of a niggling groin injury, while former captains Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly have once again been left out of the 15-member squad.
India's chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar said on Tuesday that pace spearhead Zaheer Khan was left out of India's Twenty-20 World Championship squad to recuperate from a heel injury.
Dilip Vengsarkar is set to take over as India's chief selector from Kiran More.
Former India captain and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar showered rich praise on Virender Sehwag for his blazing triple century on Day 3 of the first Test against South Africa in Chennai on Friday, saying, it was one of the finest innings he's seen in Test cricket.
Chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar says Chandu Borde's appointment as manager for the tours of Ireland and England will go a long way towards Team India improving its performance.
India's chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar came down hard on ICC match referee Mike Procter, saying he needs to be punished for his role in the Harbhajan Singh racial abuse episode.
Left-arm pacer R P Singh will be out of action for three weeks because of a torn hamstring and miss the tri-series involving India, Australia and Sri Lanka.
India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan would be out of action for six weeks due to an ankle injury that kept him out of the second Test against Australia which started in Sydney on Wednesday.
The former India captain is the oldest Indian to attain the milestone, at the age of 35 years and 171 days.
After its openers put on 127 runs, indiscreet shot selection cost Tamil Nadu dear as they ended the first day at 250 for 9 in 89.3 overs against Delhi in their last match of the Ranji Super League in Chennai on Tuesday.
However, there is no bar on the matter being taken up at the meeting if a member wishes to do so, said BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah.
After much dilly- dallying the selection panel of the BCCI finally announced the team for the third and final Test against Pakistan, to be played in Bangalore, and the list of probables for the tour of Australia in a hurried manner following a meeting which lasted close to two hours.
Front-runner to replace Dilip Vengsarkar as the chief selector in case the incumbent steps down from the post, former captain Chandu Borde on Monday indicated he was not averse to the idea if BCCI approaches him.
Chief cricket selector Dilip Vengsarkar wants to step down following his stand off with the BCCI which has banned him from writing newspaper columns
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"Vengsarkar had a chat with Sharad Pawar today and the matter has been resolved. Vengsarkar has assured that he will stop writing columns. So that is why the show cause notice is not being revoked and it has been withheld," BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla said in Delhi on Thursday.
The BCCI told Vengsarkar that he will have to quit as chief selector if he continues to function as a columnist.
The chairman of selectors has toed the BCCI line and stopped writing his regular column for a Marathi daily.
There is no reason why the 37-year-old leg spinner can't do a decent job as captain of the Indian Test team. Not only is he a highly experienced player but also very intelligent and articulate.
The national selection panel headed by Dilip Vengsarkar will pick the squad for the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka after the second Test at Galle, the Cricket Board said on Monday.
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will be playing under Gujarat's attacking wicketkeeper batsman Parthiv Patel in the three-team tournament also featuring India Red, led by Mohd Kaif, and India Blue, captained by Virender Sehwag.
Delhi paceman Ishant Sharma was earlier asked to join the Indian cricket team in South Africa on Wednesday.
Pathan has been asked to play in the remaining two rounds of Ranji Trophy domestic cricket tournament.
Indian team's manager Lalchand Rajput reacted to chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar's warning to senior players, saying the outburst was unwarranted in the middle of a series.
India's selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar says the paucity of hard and bouncy pitches is affecting the country's prospects.
The Hyderabadi batsman says he is full fit and was expecting a call-up to the ODI team for the tour of South Africa.
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) left no stone unturned to make the occasion a memorable one.
Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohammad Azharuddin took a lap around the 'Mecca of Indian cricket'
The former India skipper expressed shock overt Pakistan team coach's reported statement, suggesting that the ball-tampering law should be abolished.
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