Abhishek Nayar Sacked, Made ‘Scapegoat’ Due To Rift Between India Senior Star And BCCI Coaching Staff: Report

The Indian cricket staff’s assistant coach Abhishek Nayar has been sacked simply eight months into the project amid hypothesis of a rift with a high-profile member of the assist employees although Test debacles towards New Zealand and Australia are being cited as the explanation for his ouster. If board sources are to be believed, Nayar has already been intimated of the BCCI’s resolution to half methods with him.

“While India’s recent Test debacles (against New Zealand and Australia) has led to the churning but there is also a feeling in the BCCI that Nayar became a scapegoat in the turf war between an important member of the support staff and a senior star player,” a BCCI supply advised PTI.

Fielding coach T Dilip, and Strength and Conditioning coach Soham Desai are additionally on their means out after finishing greater than three years of their respective positions.

The new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the BCCI has capped the assist employees’s tenure at three years.

It is learnt that India’s first ever Strength and Conditioning coach Adrian Le Roux is more likely to return for a second stint. The South African is broadly credited for ushering in a brand new health tradition within the then Sourav Ganguly-led Indian staff through the 2003 World Cup.

BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia, when contacted by PTI, selected to sidestep the question.

“Certain things are being finalised. You will receive a press note from BCCI in some days,” Saikia mentioned when requested concerning the growth.

The 41-year-old Nayar, a former all-rounder who performed three ODIs however was largely a home stalwart with 103 first-class video games, did not reply to a textual content message despatched by PTI.

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