Indian girls’s head coach to be picked on June 30, Agarkar frontrunner for chief selector’s submit – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: Home stalwarts Amol Muzumdar and Tushar Arothe have made it to the shortlist for the top coach place of the Indian girls’s workforce, with interviews scheduled for June 30.
Arothe brings prior expertise because the coach of the Indian workforce, whereas Muzumdar, who can be being thought-about for the position of Baroda coach, has labored with the IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and the South African nationwide workforce.
Moreover, it has been revealed that Jon Lewis, an Englishman and former head coach of Durham, has submitted his utility for the job.
The interviews will probably be carried out in Mumbai by the Cricket Advisory Committee, consisting of Ashok Malhotra, Jatin Paranjpe and Sulakshana Naik.
“The interviews will probably be carried out on Friday,” a BCCI official advised PTI.
The Indian girls’s workforce, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, has struggled with relinquishing successful positions in knockout video games throughout multi-team occasions over the previous 5 years.
For the reason that dismissal of Ramesh Powar in December, the workforce has been with no head coach. Nonetheless batting coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar took cost of the workforce in the course of the T20 World Cup in South Africa earlier this 12 months.
India is ready to tour Bangladesh subsequent month, and the choice relating to the appointment of a head coach will probably be introduced earlier than the tour begins.
“I do not assume bringing again Tushar will probably be a sensible choice. The workforce wants somebody with recent concepts. Somebody like Amol is the correct individual to take the workforce ahead.
“The administration must construct a giant pool of gamers earlier than the T20 World Cup subsequent 12 months which may also be held in Bangladesh,” mentioned a former India participant.

Ajit Agarkar frontrunner for chief selector’s submit
After choosing the top coach for the ladies’s workforce on Friday, the CAC is more likely to appoint the chief selector for the Indian males’s workforce — a submit that has been vacant since Chetan Sharma’s unceremonious exit in February.
The final date of utility is June 30 and the interviews are more likely to be held on July 1.
“The CAC has the mandate to choose a selector who can stand as much as the excessive profile workforce administration in case there are variations,” added the BCCI official.
Agarkar was linked to the chief selector’s submit up to now as properly, however this time, he’s more likely to get the excessive strain job.
If Agarkar is appointed, there will probably be two selectors from the West Zone with Salil Ankola being the opposite.
The 45-year-old performed 26 Checks, 191 ODIs and four T20s for India. He was part of the Delhi Capitals’ help workers within the not too long ago held IPL.
(With PTI inputs)