Team India, remained without coach since the ICC World Twenty20 after Ravi Shastri’s contract as a team manager ended after the tournament.
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Meanwhile, Sandeep Patil, who confirmed his application for the job, has reportedly not yet received any communication from the BCCI, ESPNcricinfo reported.
Though BCCI has trimmed the list of 57 candidates that applied for the post to 21, yet the choice for the advisory panel made of Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and former BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale remains tough.
Kumble, the world’s third highest wicket-taker with 619 Test scalps, will succeed Zimbabwean Duncan Fletcher, whose term ended in March 2015 after the 50-over World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
CAC will submit its final report over selection of Team India’s new coach to BCCI by Wednesday evening.
Kumble, 45, who will take charge from India’s upcoming four-Test series in the West Indies in July-August, pipped Ravi Shastri for the post. I think India deserves the best and I think we have [it in] Anil Kumble.
Anil Kumble has no prior coaching experience and this will be his first official job as a high-profile coach. “Yes, as you said, the interview is tomorrow and hopefully by June 24 you will get to know the name of the Indian coach”, he said.
“Need to sit down with Sourav, Sachin, Laxman and Dravid and need to do what is best for Indian cricket”, adds the new Indian cricket coach. “And I hope it is done before the evening”, BCCI president Anurag Thakur told reporters. He is the highest wicket-taker for India till date and third in the worldwide list, behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne.
Thakur said that a call on who would be the assistant coaches alongside Kumble would be taken in a few days. His record speaks for himself, as far as winning matches for India is concerned.
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Dharamsala: BCCI President Anurag Thakur wants the media managers of various state associations to focus more on “engagement with fans as well as mediapersons” rather than looking after “traditional arrangements”.
