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BCCI appoints Sitanshu Kotak as batting coach of Team India

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BCCI appoints Sitanshu Kotak as batting coach of Team India

 

The other assistant coaches in the support staff are former South African pacer Morne Morkel (bowling) and Dutchman Ryan Ten Doeschate (fielding).

 

NCA's Sitanshu Kotak named India's batting coach. (PTI Photo)

NCA's Sitanshu Kotak named India's batting coach. (PTI Photo)

Former Saurashtra batter Sitanshu Kotak was on Thursday named India's batting coach ahead of the upcoming limited-overs series against England and the Champions Trophy next month after assistant coach Abhishek Nayar's performance came under scrutiny during the tour of Australia.

 

The 52-year-old Kotak is a longtime staff of the National Cricket Academy as its batting coach. He has been on tours with both the senior and A teams during the past few years.

 

 

"It is clear that Abhishek Nayar's expertise isn't helping the players. Kotak has been a specialist batting coach for a lengthy period of time and has also got the trust of the players," a senior BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

 

The Indian batters were found wanting on the technical front in Australia with Virat Kohli's outside the off stump troubles becoming a recurring problem. The Indians lost the five-match series 1-3.

 

Kotak was considered a dogged left-hander during his in domestic cricket, where he amassed over 8,000 first-class runs, including 15 hundreds, in 130 appearances.

 

He was particularly known for two strokes -- the cover drive when the ball used to be pitched up and the flick when it was pitched on pads.

 

 

It is understood that this could be a one off appointment as away series against England is still some time away in June.

 

The home engagement against the same side starts on January 22 and features five T20 Internationals and three ODIs.

 

"We have an India A shadow tour and Kotak normally handles the A team. He is a qualified Level 3 coach and has assisted VVS Laxman in the past and was also the head coach when India toured Ireland last year. Since he is NCA staff, he can be put anywhere," the source added.

 

It is understood that Nayar, a former Mumbai stalwart, is under the scanner. A widely held belief is that he will only be around till an influential senior player, who had a say in his appointment, is a part of the Indian set-up.

 

During the tour of Australia, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar had questioned the role of the Indian support staff by saying that they should be held accountable for the persistent technical issues of players like Kohli.

 

The other assistant coaches in the support staff are former South African pacer Morne Morkel (bowling) and Dutchman Ryan Ten Doeschate (fielding).

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Just now, rollingstoned said:

It is understood that Nayar, a former Mumbai stalwart, is under the scanner. A widely held belief is that he will only be around till an influential senior player, who had a say in his appointment, is a part of the Indian set-up.

This is turning out to be such a low budget K-drama, and by that I mean old-school Ekta/Shobha Kapoor :laugh:

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36 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

It is understood that Nayar, a former Mumbai stalwart, is under the scanner. A widely held belief is that he will only be around till an influential senior player, who had a say in his appointment, is a part of the Indian set-up.

Who is this player ?

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46 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Hitman. 

Were Nayyar and Rohit teammates for Mumbai at some point of time ?

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1 hour ago, Texan said:

You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink

 

You can tell Kohli to leave balls outside off-stump, but you can't make him do it.

 

 

 

Old coach, new coach, even newer coach, nothing will help RoKo.

 

 

I have told Virat that the solution is easy - from now he will take 5th leg stump guard. That way he will fish only for deliveries that are on the stumps.

 

Simple as that.

 

Yours truly,

Gautam

 

 

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Back when GG was getting his coaching team they reported that Nayar was GG's guy now he some senior player's guy.

 

This is the very reason bcci wants Ind coach and Ind head coach, there are too many superstars, coach need to know how to  handle such thing non-ind coach would never understand this. 

 

And when such thing comes up it will be same fallout a Greg Chappell, can they remove a non-ind coaching staff after 6 months because few superstars are not performing.

These batters are out of form for last 3/4 yrs now all the run scoring in test have been done by lower-middle order/lower order batters.

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3 hours ago, tapandrun said:

Back when GG was getting his coaching team they reported that Nayar was GG's guy now he some senior player's guy.

 

This is the very reason bcci wants Ind coach and Ind head coach, there are too many superstars, coach need to know how to  handle such thing non-ind coach would never understand this. 

 

And when such thing comes up it will be same fallout a Greg Chappell, can they remove a non-ind coaching staff after 6 months because few superstars are not performing.

These batters are out of form for last 3/4 yrs now all the run scoring in test have been done by lower-middle order/lower order batters.

I believe Deoschate was Gambhir's pick and Nayar was Rohit's.

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