{"id":9914,"date":"2016-06-23T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:12:52","slug":"the-bcci-has-complete-faith-in-anil-kumble-anurag-thakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/the-bcci-has-complete-faith-in-anil-kumble-anurag-thakur\/","title":{"rendered":"The BCCI has complete faith in Anil Kumble: Anurag Thakur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/anil-1.jpg\" alt=\"Board of Control for Cricket in India, Anil Kumble, Ravi Shastri, Sandeep Patil, Tom Moody, Pravin Amre, Venkatesh Prasad, Lal Chand Rajput, Stuart Law, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Anurag Thakur, Sanjay Jagdale Head Coach, Team India Coach, Indian Coach, Cricket\" width=\"701\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Anurag Thakur after appointing\u00a0former Indian skipper Anil Kumble\u00a0as the new head coach on Thursday said that\u00a0the board has complete faith in the legendary leg-spinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter discussions we have taken a final call that for one year Anil Kumble will be the head coach,\u201d Thakur told a packed press conference on the sidelines of the board\u2019s first ever annual cricket conclave in Dharamsala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian cricket team deserves the best coach, BCCI has complete faith in Kumble. It is not about an Indian or a foreign coach, it is about best coach for India,\u201d Thakur added.<\/p>\n<p>Thakur also said that the support staff will be announced later after further consideration. \u201cBowling and batting coaches will be decided later,\u201d said the youngest BCCI President.<\/p>\n<p>The BCCI received as many as 57 applications for this high profile post before it was trimmed down to 21. The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman, interviewed the shortlisted candidates and recommended the best possible candidates (as per them) to the BCCI president.<\/p>\n<p>Former team India director Ravi Shastri, Sandip Patil, Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Amre, Tom Moody, Stuart Law and Andy Moles were among the prominent names doing the rounds for this high profile post. Kumble\u2019s first assignment with the team will be the four-match Test series against the West Indies next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Anurag Thakur after appointing\u00a0former Indian skipper Anil Kumble\u00a0as the new head coach on Thursday said that\u00a0the board has complete faith in the legendary leg-spinner. \u201cAfter discussions we have taken a final call that for one year Anil Kumble will be the head coach,\u201d Thakur told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":9915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8,170,140],"tags":[1000,1021,152,10,919,1165,96,989,892,33,920,123,1183,1164,917,118,1063],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-anil-kumble","tag-anurag-thakur","tag-bcci","tag-cricket","tag-indian-coach","tag-lal-chand-rajput","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-pravin-amre","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sandeep-patil","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-stuart-law","tag-tom-moody","tag-venkatesh-prasad","tag-virat-kohli","tag-vvs-laxman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}