India, Oct. 23 -- Former India pacer Parvinder Awana was appointed chairman of the newly formed BCCI junior selection committee on Friday. Awana played two T20Is for India and took 191 wickets in 62 First-Class matches. He also represented Delhi, India A, and Rest of India, and played in the IPL for Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings).

After retirement, he moved into coaching, working with Delhi's U16, U19 and U23 teams, as well as India U19 and various BCCI/COE high-performance programmes. The other members of the committee are Krishna Das, Rakesh Patel and N. Arjun Yadav. "The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) conducted a selection process for the appointment of members to the Junior Cricket Committee.

"The CAC screened and interviewed ...