Team India New Coach – Ravi Shastri’s Successor? The month of October is looking to be jam-packed for the BCCI. The Indian board is in process of finalizing two new IPL teams this month, preparations are on to release the new media rights tender for IPL & above all the BCCI is the host to T20 World Cup that starts on October 17th. Now another task is getting added in the BCCI’s work-plate i.e to finalize the new coach for the Indian team. According to the information coming in from the sources, BCCI is set to release the advertisement for the post of new coach & his support staff later this week.
“We should release the advertisement for the new coach before the end of this week. We have already zeroed down on the criteria & requirements. We will have new coach and his support staff in place before the New Zealand series”, told the BCCI official to InsideSport.in
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India are due to play a full series against New Zealand at home from Nov 17 which is three days after the T20 World Cup final in Dubai.
Indian Team New Coach: BCCI to start hiring process for Ravi Shastri’s successor before end of this week
Team India New Coach – Contenders for Ravi Shastri’s Post? Current coach Ravi Shastri & most of his support staff members have already declared & made it clear to the BCCI that they will not reapply. Check the list of names doing the rounds and their chances –
Anil Kumble: Some of the members of BCCI were in touch with Anil Kumble for reapplying for the post. Kumble has already seen one unceremonious exit after he had a fallout with captain Virat Kohli in 2017. Moreover his record as Punjab Kings coach doesn’t exude any confidence. First of all it is unlikely that Kumble himself would be interested in the role & secondly most of the senior BCCI officials reportedly are not interested in his services.
“Well, neither Kumble wants to return, nor the BCCI officials, other than president Sourav Ganguly, are too interested in him. The Board is looking for a foreign coach now. Kumble knows that he will have to face the same old team members (Virat Kohli and others in the team), nothing new, then why would he return? And moreover Dada (Ganguly) has recommended his name but other officials expressed their disagreement on it,” a highly-placed source in the board told IANS few weeks back.
VVS Laxman: Laxman’s name was also doing the rounds again it will be hard for him to get the vote of confidence from the BCCI selection committee.
Rahul Dravid: Everyone is inclined to have Dravid on board as India’s new coach, but the man himself is not ready to commit. In the days to come all that may change.
Team India New Coach – Tom Moody desires to replace Ravi Shastri- As India is eyeing a foreign coach for Virat Kohli & Co, Australia’s Tom Moody has desired to replace Ravi Shastri as India head coach. As per a report by Fox Sports, Moody wants to takeover after Shastri’s term will come to an end after T20 World Cup.
Team India New Coach: Tom Moody desires to replace Ravi Shastri as India coach; Report
- Tom Moody had last coached Sunrisers in his cricketing career. He along with David Warner had guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to their maiden IPL title in 2016.
- In his career, the Australian has coached Sri Lanka and led a number of domestic sides including Western Australia.
- He has also guided Sri Lanka to the final of the 2007 50-over World Cup.
- He skipped IPL last year and returned to SRH as their director to cricket in IPL 2021.
- Moody was shortlisted for the job in 2017 and 2019 but eventually fell short of the top job. Will he be considered this time? Follow us at insidesport.in to find out
Other than Moody, names of Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene is also doing the rounds but the former Sri Lanka captain seems to be more inclined toward IPL stint and role in Sri Lanka Cricket.
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