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BCCI opens application process for head coach
- Updated: May 22, 2016
The BCCI has set June 10 as the deadline for candidates to apply for the role of India’s head coach. An interim coaching staff is likely to be put in place for the limited-overs series in Zimbabwe in June, with the aim of appointing new long-term coaches by the time Virat Kohli’s team reaches the Caribbean for a four-Test series against West Indies, scheduled for July-August.
The contracts of team director Ravi Shastri, batting coach Sanjay Bangar, bowling coach B Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar – who had comprised India’s coaching staff since the ODI series in England in 2014 – expired after the World T20 in March.
In 2015, the BCCI had appointed a three-man advisory committee comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman to look for a head coach. That panel panel was disbanded when Ganguly took over as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal. It is understood that the BCCI failed to find a suitable replacement for Ganguly, thus stalling the coach-selection process.
“We will advertise for the post of coach today,” Anurag Thakur said at his first …
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