New Delhi: Former Indian cricket player Ravi Shastri, who
also has served as a Director of the team have decided to re-apply for the
posts along with his team of support staffs, including batting
coach Sanjay Bangar, bowling coach Bharat Arun
and fielding coach R Sridhar. Reports are that all the four cricket
personalities will apply for their respective posts as national coaches to the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) within the next two days.
“All the three coaches (Arun, Bangar and Sridhar) along
with Shastri are applying as they have got positive feelers from the top brass
of the BCCI. Since there will be a format of application that each applicant
will have to follow, they are waiting for the advertisement to be published,”
asserted a senior BCCI official.
Also, according to the BCCI sources, Shastri and the other
three coaches met BCCI President Anurag Thakur a day before he was elected for
the post. “The BCCI president had made it clear that anyone with proper
credentials can apply. Also Thakur has praised the work done by 'Team Shastri'
in the last 18 months. The young team has enjoyed a fair bit of success
overseas. It is only fair that they get equal chance like other applicants,”
reports said.
According to BCCI, they have set a couple of criteria to
select candidates as coach for the Indian cricket team. BCCI has asserted that
they will introduce a level-III degree which will ask for considerable
experience of coaching to senior teams, preferably at the international sides.
One with an experience of playing 50 international matches for his country is
another criterion to coach the Indian team.
“Also someone like Shastri cannot be considered if coaching
degree is only consideration whereas he has played 80 Tests for India,” BCCI
said.
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