Sehwag applies for Indian coach's post, set for face-off with Kumble

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag

It's official! Former India opener Virender Sehwag is among five candidates to have applied for the post of Team India's head coach. Sehwag, who was the director of operations of IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab this year, will face-off against incumbent Anil Kumble for the post as he will be one of the front-runners for the job along with some of the other names who have also applied for the top job.

The others to have applied to the post are Tom Moody, Richard Pybus, Dodda Ganesh and Lalchand Rajput.

Moody has earlier coached Sri Lanka, and had earlier also applied for the India's coach's post. Englishman Pybus has coached Pakistan.

Rajput is currently the head coach of the Afghanistan cricket team.

Ganesh was a right-arm medium-fast bowler who was the top performer for his domestic team, Karnataka, at a time when it boasted of national players like Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Anil Kumble and Sunil Joshi.

Virat Kohli and Anil Kumble
Virat Kohli and Anil Kumble

Stories of a rift between captain Virat Kohli and head coach Kumble have been floating about and have upset the Indian camp in England though there has been no official denial about the so-called differences between the two. But team members, according to sources, are miffed that such stories are appearing when they are about to kick off a very important 50-over event on June 4, the day of the India vs Pakistan clash at Birmingham.

Indian cricket's advisory panel -- Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman -- are expected to make peace between Kohli and Kumble.

In his tenure as India head coach, Kumble has led the team to victories in all tournaments in the last year.


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