And the nightmare continues to haunt BCCI. This was an unanticipated predicament. The offer to coach Team India, one of the prestigious positions in cricket world, has been discarded by Graham Ford, quoting the personal reasons. When everybody was writing on how Ford had to approach Team India to bring them back on the winning track, he surprised everyone with his decision to stay with Kent, leaving the BCCI back to square once again.
This time the agony is more and the scar is deep. This was totally an unforeseen situation. The total process started off in bizarre. There were some voices raised loud against the choice of foreigner as coach, some blatant statements were made by veterans, like Kapil Dev. But BCCI ignored everything and kept their hunt alive very much for a foreigner for coach position. At first, it almost offered the position to Whatmore, who publicly announced his keen interest in coaching Team India and even BCCI have gone through some preliminary scanning on Whatmore in Bangladesh, while team India were there. Even though it felt like Whatmore would be the next coach, BCCI surprised everyone with ruling out the chances. Then Graham Ford came into the picture, a South African, currently working with Kent. Just to make the show interesting they introduced a dummy competitor John Emburey, who was an ordinary cricketer and an under achieved coach. Even Emburey must have surprised by the call from BCCI for inviting him to attend an interview. As expected, BCCI banked the hopes on Graham Ford, who left them to drown right in the middle of the sea. BCCI must have been humiliated with the current situation. The so called sturdy biceps of BCCI have turned into unwanted swollen muscles.
During all this process, there was clear rebuke from veterans on having a foreigner as coach. I clearly don’t understand the logic behind how a compatriot coach would enhance the cricketing skills more than that of a foreigner. I believe coach has a minimal role to play in cricket. It all depends on how players perform on a given day and at given situation. The main responsibility of coach should be that of a guide who would lead the players in correct way and pump them up when players are demoralized and dispirited. The person has to back the players when they are low on confidence and pat their back when they are running high in form. For this, we need a person with good cricketing skills with never die attitude and he could be an Indian or a foreigner.
Anyway, BCCI has lot to work on in less time now. They have a big itinerary of cricket this year and hopefully we would see an end to this brouhaha soon.
This time the agony is more and the scar is deep. This was totally an unforeseen situation. The total process started off in bizarre. There were some voices raised loud against the choice of foreigner as coach, some blatant statements were made by veterans, like Kapil Dev. But BCCI ignored everything and kept their hunt alive very much for a foreigner for coach position. At first, it almost offered the position to Whatmore, who publicly announced his keen interest in coaching Team India and even BCCI have gone through some preliminary scanning on Whatmore in Bangladesh, while team India were there. Even though it felt like Whatmore would be the next coach, BCCI surprised everyone with ruling out the chances. Then Graham Ford came into the picture, a South African, currently working with Kent. Just to make the show interesting they introduced a dummy competitor John Emburey, who was an ordinary cricketer and an under achieved coach. Even Emburey must have surprised by the call from BCCI for inviting him to attend an interview. As expected, BCCI banked the hopes on Graham Ford, who left them to drown right in the middle of the sea. BCCI must have been humiliated with the current situation. The so called sturdy biceps of BCCI have turned into unwanted swollen muscles.
During all this process, there was clear rebuke from veterans on having a foreigner as coach. I clearly don’t understand the logic behind how a compatriot coach would enhance the cricketing skills more than that of a foreigner. I believe coach has a minimal role to play in cricket. It all depends on how players perform on a given day and at given situation. The main responsibility of coach should be that of a guide who would lead the players in correct way and pump them up when players are demoralized and dispirited. The person has to back the players when they are low on confidence and pat their back when they are running high in form. For this, we need a person with good cricketing skills with never die attitude and he could be an Indian or a foreigner.
Anyway, BCCI has lot to work on in less time now. They have a big itinerary of cricket this year and hopefully we would see an end to this brouhaha soon.
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