Sanjay Banger is replaced by Vikram Rathour as batting coach while Bharath Arun n R Sridhar retain their respective positions.

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

can someone share vikram rathour coaching credentials 

[nevada]

Bangar ban gaya bakra. Let's see if Rathore does any better.

[nevada]

3 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

can someone share vikram rathour coaching credentials 

He settled down in the UK and became a citizen. I wonder when that happened because he served as a selector at some point of time.

[kubrickian]

Vikram focking Rathore who used to shiver against Donald and co and used to look like a tailender against them. Are you kidding me ?

[kubrickian]

Those were the glory days of Indian batting - Vikram Rathore, Devang Gandhi, Shivsunder Das, Sujith Somsunder etc. Legendary 90s opening batsmen.  

[cowboysfan]

5 minutes ago, kubrickian said:

Vikram focking Rathore who used to shiver against Donald and co and used to look like a tailender against them. Are you kidding me ?

i hated this guy when he batted,not to say he cant be a good coach though.

[vvvslaxman]

He was one of our famous "90s jokes" lol. Zero feet movement. He would stand and try to negotiate the ball. Any time we wanted to make fun of our 90s squad, this guy's name would invariably pop up.  There is something seriously wrong with our system. 

[sandeep]

The only way Vikram Rathore makes sense is another potential bakra to be sacrificed further down the line.  He will never be a threat to either Shastri or to Virat.

 

Pravin Amre would have helped our batting unit.   But he has earned enough credibility to not be a pushover.  Vikram has no choice but to be a yes-man. 

 

This is a political appointment.

[Soorma_Bhopali]

Shocking that Jonty Rhodes is not chosen over Sridhar. These guys have made a mackery of appointments process. With this kind of appointments, no high profile and good coaches will apply in future. Do you think the likes of Tom Moody will apply again after 15 years of continuous rejections ???

[kosingh]

His memorable batting during the 96 England tour...

 

We got to know Rahul Dravid. We got to know Saurav Ganguly. And we got know Vikram Rathour on that tour. 

[jf1gp_1]

I am sure quite a few in our current batsman would have made their debut when rathore was selector. Hope he is a better coach than batsman. All the best to him. 

[nevada]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

He was one of our famous "90s jokes" lol. Zero feet movement. He would stand and try to negotiate the ball. Any time we wanted to make fun of our 90s squad, this guy's name would invariably pop up.  There is something seriously wrong with our system. 

The only hope is that he absoultely, fully knows how NOT to be an unsuccessful international batsman and thus can help current batsmen avoid the mistakes he did.

[ExtremeBrainfade]

Is it possible at all that they offered the batting coach job to Amre and the fielding coach job to Rhodes, but could not agree on contractual terms and had to go to Plan B - Rathour and Sridhar?  But they cannot publicly reveal those negotiations.  

[Ankit_sharma03]

I hope he at-least he improves our players batting against spin bowling which isnt same as it use to be apart from pujara. He belongs to a generation of cricketer who played spin damn well. 

[The Realist]

1 hour ago, kosingh said:

His memorable batting during the 96 England tour...

 

We got to know Rahul Dravid. We got to know Saurav Ganguly. And we got know Vikram Rathour on that tour. 

Legendary batting. Used to go fishing outside off stump and provide catching practice to Eng fielders.

 

Maybe he can show videos of that tour as an education of how not to bat. 

[The Realist]

2 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

I hope he at-least he improves our players batting against spin bowling which isnt same as it use to be apart from pujara. He belongs to a generation of cricketer who played spin damn well. 

He was never at the crease long enough to play any spin bowling.

[Ankit_sharma03]

2 minutes ago, The Realist said:

He was never at the crease long enough to play any spin bowling.

ranji men to kehlta hi hoga na.....he piled on runs in ranji

Rayudu might have not been a good player of pace but was a damn good player of spin, same manoj tiway

 

These domestic legends mostly were good players of spin bowling

[Late Cut]

Few good coaches in any sport were great players; quite the opposite. 

[G_B_]

Hmm does he have any proper coaching background?