Team India likely to have spin bowling coach

[saneindian]

NAGPUR: Former players and critics have come down hard on the BCCI after the loss in the Test series against England. While the England spinnersîonty Panesar and Graeme SwannÃÓelished the Indian conditions, their Indian counterparts struggled against the likes of Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen. India's bowling coach Joe Dawes looks after the fast bowlers, who will have a limited role to play in the Australian series. That might have forced the BCCI to think about the spin coach again. If sources are to be believed the BCCI is seriously thinking on this direction and Team India is likely to have spin coach during the Australian series. "It's in very early stage but we are definitely thinking about it. We will speak to the Indian team management about it after the one-day series and take their point of view. Let's see what happens. The BCCI will do anything that will help the players," a BCCI official told TOI on condition of anonymity. After the Nagpur Test former England captain Geoff Boycott had advocated for the need of spin coach for the Indian team. "I never thought I would say this about India, but they need a spinning coach, like Mushtaq Ahmed is for England. They need someone who understands spin bowling, someone who can tell R Ashwin that he's not putting enough body into his action, or that he needs more shoulder turn at delivery," Boycott had written in one of his columns in TOI. The spin departmentÃÃnce India's strengthÃÊs not the same anymore. India's most experienced spinner Harbhajan Singh has been in and out for the last one and half years. Although Pragyan Ojha and R Ashwin did exceptionally well against weaker teams like West Indies and New Zealand at home, it was a different ballgame altogether against Australia earlier this year and England recently. It has been learnt that the BCCI was also thinking about the spin coach before the England series but the team management didn't show much of interest. However, things are different now. "Spin is our strength and with most of the fast bowlers aren't fit, the spinners will play a big role in the coming Oz series. It would be better if experienced coach guide these youngsters," he said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/Team-India-likely-to-have-spin-bowling-coach/articleshow/18214056.cms That highlighted part shows us why our cricket is stagnating. THis team management despite all the losses still was against getting specialists with the team. But now the lessons have been learnt. Interesting development. Who could it be? Prasanna has worked at the NCA and in pre series cams before. But may be too old to travel with the team on a full time basis. Among the younger lot, Sunil Joshi, Raju are there, among those who didn't play int'l cricket but were successful at FC level V Venkatram, VV Kumar, KVP Rao, Raghuram Bhatt, Padmakar Shivalkar all involved with the zonal academies could be other candidates. Or will they go for an international coach, someone like Bruce Yardley?

[CG]

WTF team mangement did not want a spin coach like prasanna.

[Sean Bradley]

Troll Alert : Where is Bishen Singh Bedi :giggle: ?

[saneindian]

lol Bedi If the spinners fail again, he will say "These jokers should be thrown into the Arabian Sea".

[Hafeez]

Spin Bowling coach should be Bedi or Kumble where is Un-19 boy Harmeet singh he looks a great spinner

[Clarke]

Bhajji can slap the non-performing monkeys :two_thumbs_up:

[the don]

please let it be elevation and distance ramakrishnan , get him out of the commentary box:pray:

[vayuu1]

I prasanna and Bedi can be good coach,but we also need a batting coach as we'll considering our recent great performances.

[express bowling]

please let it be elevation and distance ramakrishnan ' date=' get him out of the commentary box:pray:[/quote'] :haha: Take the most boring commentator( other than Siva ), multiply by 5 and you get Siva.:cantstop:

[SLICKR392]

The state of Indian cricket. :facepalm:

[express bowling]

It is about time we got a spin coach. But he has to be someone who understands bowling against the super ,modern bats.

[Trundler27]

piyush chawla a candidate here? he is the only one who can teach the young spinners how to repeatedly get into the team for crucial games without ever performing

[SLICKR392]

Both have jumped 15 positions from their last rankings among batsmen and bowlers. Raina is no 10 in batsmen's list which has Kohli at 3 and MSD at 4. Jaddu is the lone Indian in the top 10 rankings t no. 8. Ashwin is the nest one at 14 ( was 8th earlier) Tremendous achievement. Congrats to Raina and Jaddu :hatsoff:

Merge or make a similar post in the No.1 ODI ranking thread. :nice:

[namasteji1]

Kumble should be the obvious choice.

[express bowling]

Kumble should be the obvious choice.

Kumble succeeded the hard way, so he may become a good coach. But does he have any training ?

[namasteji1]

^^No ideas about that. But the things he can tell are unmatched to any other good coach around.

[munafbhai]

Paddy Shivalkar was denied a chance in Indian team by Bedi , Prasanna , Venkat , all 3 in prime form when Paddy was in prime form too. But he can be great coach of spin bowling for India and get our bowling potent in spin dept atleast

[Desi Cartman]

Venky Prasad FTW :nice:

[bharat297]

Prassana would be a great coach but yeah age is a factor if they're going to travel overseas.

[Vivek.S.123]

Ravindra Jadeja should coach Fatwin and Ojha :hysterical: