Former Indian Captain, Sourav Ganguly has been nominated as a member of the BCCI's Technical Committee. Gavaskar is the Chairman of the committee, which generally makes recommendations to the BCCI on the playing conditions and the structure of the domestic game. At a recent meeting in August, the committee had allowed state associations to pick four 'guest players' [those from areas outside their jurisdiction] in their squad, including one from overseas, from the 2008-09 season onwards. Earlier, only three such players were allowed.

Ganguly is likely to continue playing for his IPL franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders, with whom he has a three-year contract. He is also slated to play Bengal's final league game in the Ranji Trophy Plate League, against Vidarbha in Nagpur - the same city where he played his final Test against Australia.

The BCCI had appointed a nine-member committee at the recent annual general meeting. Following are the other members of the panel: Chetan Chauhan, MV Sridhar, Biman Bhattacharjee, Milind Rege, Gyanendra Pandey, K Srikkanth, VK Ramaswamy and N Srinivasan (convenor).