RAVI SHASTRI HAS APPLIED FOR NATIONAL HEAD COACH

 

 

After ending his contract with Team India as a director Ravi Shastri now has applied for the post of national head coach. Shastri who has recently worked with the team as a director from India’s tour of England 2014 to ICC World T20 2016 confirmed about his application to the Press Trust of India on Monday.

 

“Yes, I have applied for the chief coach’s post today morning. I have e-mailed all the requisite documents that were asked for in the advertisement, Whatever is required by the BCCI, I have provided them. If you ask me whether I am confident or not, all I can say is that my job was to apply for the post and I have done that. I cannot comment on anything else.” Said Ravi Shastri.

 

One can’t deny the fact that during Ravi Shastri’s tenure as a team director, Indian team has a very good success rate, win % in Tests, ODIs and T20s were most of the time beyond 70, which is an indication that how much this young Indian team was enjoying playing under him. Under Shastri India made it to semi-finals of successive global events – the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World T20, and also climbed to No. 1 on the Test rankings for a period of eight weeks until Australia took over in February 2016. In this period, India also won their first limited-overs bilateral series in Australia, by whitewashing the hosts 3-0 in a T20 series, won the Test series in Sri Lanka after 23 years. Thrashed the No. 1 Test side (South Africa) 3-0

 

India’s premier batsman and the Test skipper Virat Kohli also gives credit to Ravi Shastri for his success in 2014 Australia tour where Kohli scored 4 centuries in 4 Tests. “Shastri told me to tweak my stance a bit and stay out of the crease to negotiate the amount of swing and minimise the problem which I had outside the off stump. ” Kohli said in 2014-2015

 

Apart from Shastri, current chairman of selectors and former India coach Sandeep Patil has also applied for the post. However, the support staff which worked during Shastri’s tenure – Sanjay Bangar, R Sridhar and B Arun – have not yet applied as BCCI sources believe that they would like to continue in their earlier roles depending on the requirements of the board, Although Sanjay Bangar will go with the team as a coach in the upcoming tour of Zimbabwe.