Former Mumbai police commissioner AN Roy is playing a key role in helping the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) strengthen its team. Roy spent close to four hours a few days ago in scrutinising 54 applications received in response to an advertisement the ACU posted on the BCCI's website a few months ago. He was invited to be part of the process by ACU chief Ajit Singh Shekhawat.

Shekhawat, who took over the ACU chief's post from Neeraj Kumar in March this year, said the aim is to strengthen his department that is currently manned by just three people including its chief. "We have invited applications. We will have people placed in all cricketing zones [five zones: North, South, East, West and Central] in the country. We can have two people in each zone, depending up on the suitability. That is what is proposed. We should be around 14 members [in the ACU]," Shekhawat told mid-day.