Home stalwart Amol Muzumdar is about to develop into the Indian girls’s cricket head coach after impressing the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) essentially the most throughout the interviews of the short-listed candidates in Mumbai on Monday.
The CAC comprising Ashok Malhotra, Jatin Paranjpe and Sulakshana Naik discovered Muzumdar’s 90-minute presentation most spectacular. The others who had been interviewed had been former Durham coach Jon Lewis and Tushar Arothe, who had already served as India’s head coach earlier than resigning in 2018.
The event comes days earlier than the graduation of India’s tour of Bangladesh. India had been with out a head coach since December final 12 months when Ramesh Powar was sacked.
“The CAC was most impressed with Amol’s presentation who was very clear in his plans for the ladies’s crew. The opposite displays had been good too however he was by far one of the best. He’ll most definitely be really helpful for the job,” a BCCI official advised PTI.
Muzumdar, who was most not too long ago the top coach of the Mumbai Ranji facet and has had stints with IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and South African nationwide crew, was the one one who appeared for the interview in individual.
Muzumdar’s first task would be the tour of Bangladesh, starting July 9. India will play three T20s and as many ODIs in Mirpur. The Indian girls’s crew, which has usually misplaced high-stake video games from profitable place within the final 5 years, is but to win a world title.
Muzumdar, who’s more likely to get a two-year contract, can be anticipated to information the crew to an elusive ICC title in Bangladesh subsequent 12 months when the T20 World Cup can be performed in September-October.
Contemplating India’s incapability to shut out knock-out video games, most not too long ago within the T20 World Cup semifinal towards Australia earlier this 12 months, the brand new head coach’s space of focus can be to enhance the bodily health of the gamers moreover engaged on their psychological toughness.
“Health is a serious space of enchancment for the ladies’s cricket crew. A few of the gamers on the nationwide facet actually need to work on their health. Muzumdar additionally highlighted the necessity to have a full-fledged help workers, together with a psychological coach.
“He’s absolutely conscious of what this crew must get to the subsequent stage,” the Board official added.
The subsequent two girls’s ICC occasions are within the sub-continent — Bangladesh and India, and that even have gone in Muzumdar’s favour.
India will host girls’s ODI World Cup in September 2025.
“Communication shouldn’t be an issue with an Indian coach and he additionally has a wealthy expertise of enjoying within the sub-continent situations.”
Muzumdar amassed greater than 11,167 runs in first-class cricket however regardless of piling on the runs, he may by no means make it to the Indian crew.