COLOMBO: Former India and Mumbai leg-spinning allrounder Sairaj Bahutule will journey to Sri Lanka as Staff India‘s bowling coach for the six-match white-ball sequence, TOI has learnt.
Serving as a bowling coach on the Nationwide Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for the final three years, Bahutule has been part of the help workers with the India A and the Indian groups with earlier head coach Rahul Dravid and NCA chairman VVS Laxman.
Bahutule, who performed two Checks and eight ODIs for India and took 5 wickets between 1997-2003, featured in 188 first-class video games, wherein he took a staggering 630 [email protected], and scored 6176 [email protected].
The Mumbaikar has executed good work with India’s younger spinners, and his presence ought to significantly assist the workforce’s spinners Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi and Washington Sundar, who’re all a part of the India T20 workforce, and Kuldeep Yadav, who will function within the ODIs. He was additionally with the Indian workforce through the residence sequence towards Sri Lanka final 12 months. In 2017, he labored with Australia’s younger spinners at Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence.
The 51-year-old has been the spin bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals, and has coached Vidarbha, Bengal, Gujarat and Kerala in home cricket.
The BCCI appears to have made the short-term association for the six-match white-ball sequence as ex-South African pacer Morne Morkel, who’s prone to be a part of from the house worldwide season ranging from September, wouldn’t have been accessible for the Sri Lanka tour. The Indian workforce will arrive in Colombo on Monday and straightaway proceed to Kandy, the place they begin the tour with three T20Is from July 27.
India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir‘s help workers for the Sri Lanka tour will thus embrace Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate (assistant coaches), Bahutule and fielding coach T Dilip.
Serving as a bowling coach on the Nationwide Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for the final three years, Bahutule has been part of the help workers with the India A and the Indian groups with earlier head coach Rahul Dravid and NCA chairman VVS Laxman.
Bahutule, who performed two Checks and eight ODIs for India and took 5 wickets between 1997-2003, featured in 188 first-class video games, wherein he took a staggering 630 [email protected], and scored 6176 [email protected].
The Mumbaikar has executed good work with India’s younger spinners, and his presence ought to significantly assist the workforce’s spinners Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi and Washington Sundar, who’re all a part of the India T20 workforce, and Kuldeep Yadav, who will function within the ODIs. He was additionally with the Indian workforce through the residence sequence towards Sri Lanka final 12 months. In 2017, he labored with Australia’s younger spinners at Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence.
The 51-year-old has been the spin bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals, and has coached Vidarbha, Bengal, Gujarat and Kerala in home cricket.
The BCCI appears to have made the short-term association for the six-match white-ball sequence as ex-South African pacer Morne Morkel, who’s prone to be a part of from the house worldwide season ranging from September, wouldn’t have been accessible for the Sri Lanka tour. The Indian workforce will arrive in Colombo on Monday and straightaway proceed to Kandy, the place they begin the tour with three T20Is from July 27.
India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir‘s help workers for the Sri Lanka tour will thus embrace Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate (assistant coaches), Bahutule and fielding coach T Dilip.
