The BCCI will be in best position to decide the composition of the new Cricket Advisory Committee and next senior team selection panel only after making a plea to amend some of the key Lodha reforms to the Supreme Court of India in a hearing in January. 

This could mean the outgoing MSK Prasad-led panel might stay to select the squad for India's next series against Sri Lanka, beginning January 5.

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"It is unlikely that the CAC will be formed before the Supreme Court hearing in January," a BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity. "So naturally, the selection committee might also take some time to form. It is still not clear whether the new selection committee or the existing one will pick the squad for the marquee New Zealand tour."

The plea to the SC includes relaxation in the "cooling off" period rule for administrators, allowing president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to complete their full terms instead of just 10 months at the helm. 

The BCCI further wants to amend the clause that requires the court's approval for any amendment in the constitution.

Ganguly, while addressing the media following the board's AGM on December 1, had spoken about the issue related to CAC as well as the controversial conflict of interest clause in the new BCCI constitution.

"CAC doesn't have much work," the former India skipper told reporters. "We keep talking about CAC, but the job of CAC is appointment of selectors and coach. So, once you appoint a selection committee, it stays for four years and once you appoint a coach, it (he) stays for three years. So, where is the need of having a full-time CAC?."

"So far it (CAC) is honorary, so even if you pay, you pay on what basis. There is no regular work. To have CAC with conflict of interest, I don't know whether it is the best thing. It is about only one meeting."

Specifically on the conflict clause that he believes is discouraging some of the greats of Indian cricket from involvement in its administration, the Ganguly-led new regime will approach the apex court to get more clarification. 

"Conflict clause stops everyone, that's why we can't make the CAC," he had said. "That's why we can't bring proper selectors. Conflict should only be for someone like us (office bearers). Conflict stops us from getting good people. We are going back to the court to get clarification about conflict clause."

(Inputs from PTI)