NEW DELHI, Aug 28: In a sweeping change in the appointment of national selectors, the Indian cricket board has decided to empower its president to have a final say in choosing the panel of selectors.

The board, in its recent Working Committee meeting

in Mumbai, has decided to retain the five-member selection committee but, according to top sources, it will no longer be mandatory for the BCCI president to accept the nominees put up by the respective zones at the Annual General Meeting.

“From the coming AGM, the final decision on the appointment of national selectors will wrest with the BCCI president,” a top source said.—Agencies