Chetan Sharma (born 3 January 1966) is a retired Indian cricket player who played Tests and ODIs as a fast bowler for Indian cricket team. After retirement he appeared as a cricket pundit at multiple Indian tv news networks. On 24 December 2020, he was selected as Chairman of the selection committee of Indian cricket team. In November 2022, he was sacked from the position of BCCI national chief selector after team India's exit from the 2022 T20 World Cup. Later BCCI re-appointed him. Domestic career He made his first class debut for Punjab at the age of 17 and appeared in One Day Internationals a year later. He was the first man to take a hat-trick in ODI world cup. He achieved this feat in 1987 Reliance World Cup against New Zealand. International career Making his first appearance in Tests against Pakistan at Lahore in 1984, he bowled Mohsin Khan with his fifth ball – becoming the third Indian to take a wicket in his first over in Test cricket. He took fourteen wickets in the three Tests in Sri Lanka in 1985. Later that season in Australia, with India needing a win in the last match of the league to qualify for the final of the World Series Cup. Sharma was an important member of the Indian team that defeated England 2–0 in 1986. He took sixteen wickets in the two Tests that he played. He took 10 wickets at Birmingham, including a career best 6 for 58 in the second innings. It remains the only 10 wicket haul by an Indian in England. He also is one of the few Indian pacers, like his mentor Kapil Dev, to take a 5 wicket haul in his 32 over spell to end with 5-64 and also have his name permanently etched in the Hall of Fame board at Lord's Cricket Ground. Though only twenty at this time, he picked up frequent injuries which restricted his career. When available, he was the first choice as the opening bowler with Kapil Dev for the next three years. For his ability to get useful runs down the order that too at quick rate, Chetan was seen as a natural successor to Kapil Dev in the all-rounder category. By the early nineties, his bowling dropped in pace and its sharpness and his strike rate had dropped considerably. 1987 World Cup In the Reliance