Sandeep Patil

(Chairman, West Zone)

m Age — 56 yrs

m Tests — Matches 29, Runs 1588, Avg. 36.93, Highest 174, Hundreds 4, Fifties 7

m ODIs — Matches 45, Runs 1005, Avg. 24.51, Highest 84, Fifties 9

m Played for Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy as a right-handed batsman.

m Was a former cricket manager and coach of Kenya when they reached the semi-final of 2003 World Cup

m Was the coach of the Mumbai Champs in the ICL.

m After cutting ties with ICL in 2009, was appointed director of the NCA, replacing Dav Whatmore.

Roger Binny

(South Zone)

m Age — 57 yrs

m Tests — matches 27, runs 830, avg. 23.05, highest 83 .., fifties 5, wkts 47, avg. 32.63

m ODIs — matches 72, runs 629, avg. 16.12, highest 57, fifties 1, wkts 77, avg. 29.35

m Played for Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy as an all-rounder.

m Was the highest wicket-taker of the 1983 World Cup with 18 wickets.

Vikram Rathour

(North Zone)

m Age — 43 yrs

m Tests — matches 6, runs 131, avg. 13.10, highest 44

m ODIs — matches 7, runs 193, avg. 27.57, highest 54, fifties 1

m Played for Punjab in Ranji Trophy as a batsman.

m Made 759 runs at 58.38 in the tour games on India’s 1996 tour of England.

m Has been a prolific run scorer at the first-class level, scoring 11,473 runs including 33 hundreds.

Syed Saba Karim

(East Zone)

m Age — 45 yrs

m Test — Matches 1, Runs 15, avg. 15.00, highest 15

m ODIs — Matches 34, Runs 362, Avg. 15.73, Highest 55, Fifties 1

m Played for Bihar and Bengal in Ranji Trophy as a ’keeper-batsman.

m Sustained an eye injury while keeping to Anil Kumble in the Asia Cup, in 2000, in Bangladesh. That affected his vision and cut short his playing career.

Rajinder Singh Hans

(Central Zone)

m Age — 59 yrs

m First-class — matches 78, runs 608, avg. 11.92, highest 48, wkts 340, avg. 22.13

m Played for Uttar Pradesh in Ranji Trophy as a left-arm spinner from 1976 to 1987.

m Had figures of 9/152 in the final of the 1977-78 Ranji final against Karnataka.

m In all, he has 340 first-class wickets in 78 matches.

m Under his coaching, Uttar Pradesh won their first Ranji Trophy title in 2005-06.