Former India off-spinner Ashish Kapoor likely to replace Venkatesh Prasad

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Former India off-spinner Ashish Kapoor in all likelihood will make a comeback in the junior national selection panel after chairman Venkatesh Prasad resigned from his post on Friday.

It is all but certain that Prasad will be joining Kings XI Punjab as their bowling coach and in order to avoid potential 'Conflict of Interest', the former seamer stepped down less than a month after India won the ICC U-19 World Cup. The other two members of the panel currently are former Uttar Pradesh all-rounder Gyanendra Pandey and former Baroda batsman Rakesh Parikh.

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