The BCCI top brass on Friday took stock of the operations at its Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru (CoE) besides touching on streamlining India Under-19 and India A tours going forward, board secretary Devajit Saikia told PTI.

Key technical posts are lying vacant in CoE which became fully operational in April last year. The positions include the head of education and head of sports science.

The meeting in Mumbai was also attended by BCCI president Mithun Manhas, vice-president Rajeev Shukla and head of cricket at CoE VVS Laxman.

“We assessed the vacancies at CoE and decided to go ahead with the recruitment process soon. There is acute shortage of technical personnel worldwide but we are trying to fill the positions at the earliest,” said Saikia.

On review of the operations at CoE and the way forward, Saikia added: “We thought it was an appropriate time to review the preparations and activities of CoE.

“We are hosting matches in the three grounds there (including the ongoing Vijay Hazare). We also talked about how the A tours need to be scheduled going forward.

“In certain situations, the A side and senior team are touring together at the same time. We need to ensure that there is no overlapping. A tour is an important supply line of cricketers,” said the cricketer turned lawyer from Assam.

Not our domain to discuss Bangladesh participation in T20 World Cup

Bangladesh has requested the International Cricket Council to shift its T20 World Cup games out of India after the BCCI instructed IPL franchise KKR to release Mustafizur Rahman from its roster, considering the prevailing relations between the two countries.

“The meeting was about CoE and other cricketing matters. It’s not our domain to talk about that (as the ICC has the final say on Bangladesh’s participation in T20 World Cup),” added the BCCI secretary.