Former nationwide selector Devang Gandhi has been appointed head coach of the senior Delhi crew for the upcoming home season, DDCA introduced on Saturday.
Gandhi, who had performed three Checks for India in 1999, was a senior nationwide selector from 2016-17 to 2020-21 season.
V Arvind might be bowling coach, Bantu Singh might be batting coach and just lately retired Punit Bisht is new fielding coach of the senior crew.
He was presently teaching the Bengal U-19 crew however as per senior DDCA sources, they needed somebody from exterior Delhi, who doesn’t carry any baggage and in addition comes with a clear slate.
“Devang Gandhi is a revered identify in Bengal cricket and though he doesn’t have teaching expertise at senior degree, the DDCA president Rohan Jaitley acquired lots of constructive suggestions about him from influential quarters. Therefore the names of Maninder Singh, Ajay Ratra, Manoj Prabhakar and Ajay Sharma weren’t thought-about,” a senior DDCA official advised PTI on situations of anonymity.
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“If the names of Prabhakar and Ajay Sharma would have been thought-about, a former Delhi and India stalwart, who has a zero tolerance strategy in direction of anybody linked to the match-fixing scandal, would have created a ruckus. Gandhi is a Stage 2 licensed coach, is understood to work with juniors and he can construct a brand new crew,” the official added.
With no Dhruv Shorey and Nitish Rana out there from this season, Gandhi can have difficult job of galvanising a younger crew whose nucleus contains Yash Dhull, would-be captain Himmat Singh and all-rounder Harshit Rana, all three future India prospects.
In the meantime, Robin Singh Junior is as soon as once more the chairman of senior choice committee however controversial Mayank Sidhana, who was sacked halfway by way of final season after ugly altercation with Gagan Khoda is again within the committee. One other shocking identify is former Providers captain Sowmik Chatterjee and it’s nonetheless not clear how he made the reduce.
DDCA president Rohan Jaitley has additionally created a ‘Excessive Efficiency Group’ of coaches the place Gursharan Singh, who was a member of CAC final time, has grow to be the chief batting coach.
Former Delhi pacers Parvinder Awana and Sumit Narwal are bowling coaches whereas Rishabh Pant’s childhood coach at Sonnet Membership, Devender Sharma is the brand new wicketkeeping coach.