NEW DELHI: The job to search out the brand new head coach for the senior males’s workforce appears to have grow to be tougher for the Indian cricket board (BCCI) than it was first considered.
TOI understands that the board has stored its choices open even because the deadline for the purposes is lower than every week away.
Going by sources, Gautam Gambhir (coach of KKR), Stephen Fleming (coach of Chennai Tremendous Kings), Justin Langer (coach of Lucknow Tremendous Giants) and Mahela Jayawardene (world efficiency head of Mumbai Indians) have gotten BCCI .
Reviews recommend that the board’s operations workforce has been making an attempt to talk to potential candidates and test if they’re within the job. It’s learnt that Gujarat Titans’ coach Ashish Nehra – whose identify had earlier cropped up – is not certain about doing a full-time job throughout codecs.
It’s not going to be a simple name. To entice robust candidates for the job has grow to be troublesome due to competitors from IPL.
The dedication to journey with the workforce for 10 months a yr until the subsequent ODI World Cup in 2027 is an enormous difficulty. All of the aforesaid names have profitable jobs with IPL franchises.
The one one not dedicated to an IPL job is present NCA head VVS Laxman. Whereas it’s understood that Laxman has proven reluctance to take up the job, the board has not dominated him out but. Apparently, Laxman had refused the job after the 2023 ODI World Cup and subsequently Rahul Dravid was requested to proceed at the least until the T20 WC subsequent month.
Sources advised TOI that Gambhir is at present on prime of BCCI’s want checklist. “There was no formal communication with the potential candidates. All these coaches are biding their time and weighing choices. However it appears Gambhir’s shares have risen. It’s probably that the board officers will communicate with Gambhir in Ahmedabad the place he’s with KKR for the IPL playoffs,” a BCCI supply mentioned on Tuesday.
It’s learnt that Gambhir and senior gamers within the Indian workforce have been getting alongside fairly nicely of late. “If persons are speaking about Gambhir’s friction with Virat Kohli, it may be confirmed that the 2 have at all times obtained alongside nicely off the sector. Even after the bust-up throughout an IPL match final yr, the 2 had been made to sit down down and type out any difficulty in the event that they certainly had one,” the supply added.
After Anil Kumble was appointed head coach for a yr over Ravi Shastri in 2016, the board by no means actually had to decide on between candidates.
Shastri was a unanimous selection between 2017-21 with then skipper Kohli’s backing. Dravid was elevated from NCA head in 2021 after the BCCI officers satisfied him after an extended dialogue in the course of the 2021 T20 World Cup in Dubai.
Within the present state of affairs, BCCI appears to be uncertain about its choices. One can hope for some concrete discussions and growth by the top of this week.
TOI understands that the board has stored its choices open even because the deadline for the purposes is lower than every week away.
Going by sources, Gautam Gambhir (coach of KKR), Stephen Fleming (coach of Chennai Tremendous Kings), Justin Langer (coach of Lucknow Tremendous Giants) and Mahela Jayawardene (world efficiency head of Mumbai Indians) have gotten BCCI .
Reviews recommend that the board’s operations workforce has been making an attempt to talk to potential candidates and test if they’re within the job. It’s learnt that Gujarat Titans’ coach Ashish Nehra – whose identify had earlier cropped up – is not certain about doing a full-time job throughout codecs.
It’s not going to be a simple name. To entice robust candidates for the job has grow to be troublesome due to competitors from IPL.
The dedication to journey with the workforce for 10 months a yr until the subsequent ODI World Cup in 2027 is an enormous difficulty. All of the aforesaid names have profitable jobs with IPL franchises.
The one one not dedicated to an IPL job is present NCA head VVS Laxman. Whereas it’s understood that Laxman has proven reluctance to take up the job, the board has not dominated him out but. Apparently, Laxman had refused the job after the 2023 ODI World Cup and subsequently Rahul Dravid was requested to proceed at the least until the T20 WC subsequent month.
Sources advised TOI that Gambhir is at present on prime of BCCI’s want checklist. “There was no formal communication with the potential candidates. All these coaches are biding their time and weighing choices. However it appears Gambhir’s shares have risen. It’s probably that the board officers will communicate with Gambhir in Ahmedabad the place he’s with KKR for the IPL playoffs,” a BCCI supply mentioned on Tuesday.
It’s learnt that Gambhir and senior gamers within the Indian workforce have been getting alongside fairly nicely of late. “If persons are speaking about Gambhir’s friction with Virat Kohli, it may be confirmed that the 2 have at all times obtained alongside nicely off the sector. Even after the bust-up throughout an IPL match final yr, the 2 had been made to sit down down and type out any difficulty in the event that they certainly had one,” the supply added.
After Anil Kumble was appointed head coach for a yr over Ravi Shastri in 2016, the board by no means actually had to decide on between candidates.
Shastri was a unanimous selection between 2017-21 with then skipper Kohli’s backing. Dravid was elevated from NCA head in 2021 after the BCCI officers satisfied him after an extended dialogue in the course of the 2021 T20 World Cup in Dubai.
Within the present state of affairs, BCCI appears to be uncertain about its choices. One can hope for some concrete discussions and growth by the top of this week.
