The Indian Coach Fiasco

After the early exit of the Indian cricket team from the World Cup, Greg Chappel (The coach at that time) had fought for another term, but after his poor show and his cold wars between the players, he was sacked.

The major problem occurred after he was sacked. It wasn’t supposed to be a problem but due to the brilliant arrangement, it had to be a problem. The story goes like this -

After Indians exit from the world cup, due to their hectic schedule created by the board, they had their next tour to Bangladesh within a month. During this time, finding a new coach wouldn’t be possible, so a good idea was to keep the very well known Ravi Shastri as a manager. He was also asked to take the long term plan of being a coach but he declined as he had his media commitments and couldn’t accept the offer. While this was going on, parallel the Bangladeshi Coach DAV Whatmore voluntarily gave his name for being India's coach after his term with Bangladesh.

While the tour was going on, Dav Whatmore was interacting a lot with the Indian Officials and the player. He got the trust he required that he would need to be the coach. He was supposed to be selected with everything just fine. No problems at all at this moment. After the Bangladesh tour, the coach selection committee meets up and there were only three candidate’s names which were Graham Ford, John Embruey and Dav Whatmore. The thinking of the population of the country was in that state that it just had to be official that Dav Whatmore would be the coach, but then during the board meeting his name was scrapped off by the coach selection team and named only two candidates for the post. The two candidates appeared prepared for their presentation and presented them quite exclusively. After the presentation it was decided that Graham Ford would be an apt person for the job. So they sent him an offer letter.

After a few days, there was another twist to the story. Graham Ford declines the offer without any particular reason and he wanted to stay with his previous employer, Kent. This was a big blow to the Indian team who were stranded without a coach to guide them. The Indian Coach Selection committee got a great setback by this and had a meeting on what to do next. The team’s next tour was to England and Ireland which is in another 2 week and in two weeks they weren’t able to anything accept to select another manager and it was another great player of the Indian cricket team, Chandu Borde. The Coach Selection team says that they are going to select a new coach with new names and it will be clearly well organized without any hic cups.

What I have to day about this - At the beginning of the period, I felt after what Dav Whatmore had done, it was a clear cut case that he would be selected. After the influence of some of the senior members of the Board his name was scrapped , this came as a surprise. After his name out of the list, the other two candidates had to fight between themselves. It was easily predictable that Ford only would be chosen .After a few days; the twist actually became madness. It was like no one wanted to coach the Indian Cricket team. Ford Dint accept the job .
Now the selection of the coach will be after the England tour , so let’s see what happens after the England tour .
With a team like India, there is no requirement of a coach. The senior players in the team have abundance of experience and if any problems occur during the course then the players could only help each others out. A coach is only to guide the players; the players who form the team are the actual one's to be playing on the field. So with a coach or without a coach it will be no difference, at least for the Indian Cricket Team.

Proud To Be An Indian.