Shame no Indian was found competent for coach's job: Sangakkara

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More Shame no Indian was found competent for coach's job: Sangakkara IANS | May 1, 2011, NEW DELHI: Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara on Sunday said it is a "shame" that no Indian was found competent to coach the World champions. Sangakkara was surprised that despite so many exceptional Indian cricketers around, the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI) found no one competent for the job. "Having produced some many good cricketers in the region...it is a shame that no suitable candidate was found competent to take over the national side," he said. Sangakkara said it is important for the boards to make the full use of the home grown coaches. "It is important that home grown coaching ability and talent is exploited to the fullest like home grown playing talent and ability. "In Sri Lanka we lost a great opportunity in Chandika Hathurusingha, who was capable enough to take over the national side. Unfortunately, we lost him to Australia," Sangakkara said. Hathurusingha, a one-time shadow coach of the Sri Lanka team, was suspended by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on disciplinary grounds in June before he decided to migrate to Australia. During his three-year tenure, Hathurusingha played a crucial role in the shaping the players' mental make-up which made them successful at international level. Sangakkara admitted getting a good coach is a tough task for all the boards. "Finding a No. 1 coach is the most difficult hurdle that any board would face. Those are difficult choices and from a Sri Lankan perspective every body would like to have a Sri Lankan as the coach of the national team," he said. "From this part of the world having a local coach means the person comes in with a lot of baggage with past experiences that might colour his views on coaching and players in the particular side that he takes over. So sometimes having a foreign coach is convenient from these points of view."

[akshaywekhande]

By the way who is sri lanka's coach?

[donkey]

Now I know why people call him whingakarra :dontknow:

[Number]

Typical sanga after every draw series he says Sri lanka were better team. Now he says having produced so many good cricketers its a shame India can't find Indian Coach. in other words he is saying Sri Lanka has never produced good cricketers as they had foreign coach over a long period of time.

[Stuge]

hmm why he likes Indian team so much :| or maybe news reporter has done reporting in such a way :(

[asterix]

:finger: First you become competent in winning some matches.. Tosser..

[Sachinism]

Source of article is TOI

[yoda]

Does he have to open his mouth on every topic?

[Cricket Tragic]

Maybe he was drunk? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Cwf9DmPdc]YouTube - Brett Lee Singing with Kumar Sangakkara - Kings XI IPL Crick[/ame]

[Karan114]

I'm no fan of Sanga, far from it, but from the report it sounds like he is bemoaning the lack of home grown coaches in Asia (hence the references to "region") and then citing an example of a rare good coach in SL who got away. Headline is sensationalist but no surprise.

[lonestarranger]

I'm no fan of Sanga' date=' far from it, but from the report it sounds like he is bemoaning the lack of home grown coaches in Asia (hence the references to "region") and then citing an example of a rare good coach in SL who got away. Headline is sensationalist but no surprise.[/quote'] No surprise that it came from TOI. They have this notoriety of quoting people out of context most of the time. But if it did come out the way it did in the article, :finger: Sanga.. stfu.

[Karan114]

No surprise that it came from TOI. They have this notoriety of quoting people out of context most of the time. But if it did come out the way it did in the article' date=' :finger: Sanga.. stfu.[/quote'] Man, the **** that Sanga has pulled over the last few years means he deserves to be abused forever by Indian fans :haha: But in this instance I'm not convinced especially given ToI does this rubbish with others too.

[phaedrus]

I'm no fan of Sanga' date=' far from it, but from the report it sounds like he is bemoaning the lack of home grown coaches in Asia (hence the references to "region") and then citing an example of a rare good coach in SL who got away. Headline is sensationalist but no surprise.[/quote'] totally. he was just talking about the region in general and talking from his personal experience. Typical TOI bullcrap.

[saket123]

I have no problems in admitting that yes.. there really is no Indian out there who has coaching skills at par with international levels. yes, India has produced many good players.. but being a good player does not translate to mean good coach.. Coaching a team requires a completely different skill set.. which frankly.. Indians don't have at the moment.. so the BCCI has the money to buy the best for their team.. so what is Sanga's problem again?

[NareshK]

He was talking about South Asia in general.

[Prakat]

NBA fans still ponder over this: Why are the players all black and the coaches all old white men?

[urbestfriend]

One thing which always baffles me is lack of homegrown coaches in the subcontinent. I agree with Sanga in this case where we dont even give a chance to Indian coaches to prove their worth in spite of some of the good cricketing talents we have produced. for ex: Out of 10 IPL teams, 9 coaches are white, this is not desirable especially this is indian domestic league and Indian coaches will have a good eye to find Indian talents than a white coach. Yet, every franchises wants to hire a white coach which has become fashionable these days.

[Midfielder]

I personally feel foreign coaches are better because of their stress on physical fitness.

[singhprakash72]

I agree with him..he is not talking about India ...it is with whole subcontinent region. Color of skin should not be deciding factor for the Coach !!!

[vvvslaxman]

should be their coach