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Team India to have new coach in Sept: BCCI

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Last updated on: August 20, 2015 15:33 IST
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'Shastri is holding the position of Director for the last few months and he has done well with the Indian cricket team'

'We have left it to the Cricket Advisory Committee to decide how many people will be required'

Anurag ThakurBoard of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur confirmed that a call on India's new chief coach will be taken in September, in consultation with the Cricket Advisory Committee, before the start of the South Africa home series in October.

South Africa will play four Tests, five ODIs and three T20Is during their 72-day tour of India.

Thakur said the decision on the appointment of the new coach has been left to the Cricket Advisory Committee, comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman.

"I think it is very important to have a full-time coach for any team. We have taken some time to decide and, most probably, in the month of September we will finalise the coach.

"(Ravi) Shastri is holding the position of Director for the last few months and he has done well with the Indian cricket team. The boys have given us a good feedback about him, so the only issue is if we want a full-time coach then what would be the set-up. We can't be having ten people with the Indian cricket team.

"So we have left it to the Cricket Advisory Committee to decide how many people will be required, how many coaches will be required, whether a bowling coach, a batting coach, a full-time coach or a director. Let them take a call, come back to the BCCI in September and before the South Africa series I can assure you that we will take a call on that."

Asked if the BCCI is concerned about the way the team is struggling against spin bowling and whether it is going to look at domestic pitches differently, Thakur replied: "I think this issue was discussed in the captain and coaches conclave as well.

"I think in the last few years we have moved towards green pitches and bouncy tracks. We have seen batsmen struggling against spinners in the last Test. Even in the India ‘A’ match, in the first innings, the spinners took five wickets. So, I think, we will have to look at domestic cricket and preparation of the pitches and see what we really require."

Talking about the BCCI's reservations against the Decision Review System (DRS), Thakur said: "It is not about an individual or an association to be against a system. I think we have to see why we don't have a 100 per cent system, or we have to make our mind that it is not going to be 100 percent.

"I think, if you look at the past few months, you will see that we have lost many matches and then we come back and say, 'Oh we have lost this match, let's look at the DRS'.

"I think it is not only when we lose a match we should look at the system; we need to look at the overall feasibility of it, whether it is practical, whether it is close to 100 per cent, whether it will help the decision to be implemented. If that is there, we have never closed our mind to that.

"BCCI's (technical committee chairman) Anil Kumble and others had gone to the US to look at the system and see if we can improve it further. I think there are areas where we can look at and improve it to the next level. If that is possible, the options are never closed."

Image: The national selection committee, headed by Sandeep Patil, left, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, centre, and captain Virat Kohli, at a meeting in New Delhi.

Photograph: BCCI

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