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Hours after the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA) had asked the BCCI to announce the name of the Indian team head coach on Tuesday, Ravi Shastri has been appointed the next coach of the Indian team. He will be at the helm of affairs till the 2019 World Cup.
On Monday, the cricket board’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) had deferred the announcement after interviewing five candidates. The CAC comprises Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman. However, the COA doesn’t want any more delay in this matter and has directed the BCCI accordingly.
On Monday, Ganguly had said that he want to speak to Virat Kohli on the matter. “Once he is back from America; all three of us, the respective people concerned, we will explain to him that the coaches want to function in a certain way and make sure everybody is on the same page once we make the announcement. Once, we make the announcement, it has to be till the World Cup,” he had said.
Ravi Shastri, Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus and Lalchand Rajput were interviewed on Monday. The position of the Indian team head coach has fallen vacant following Anil Kumble’s departure at the end of the Champions Trophy last month. Kumble and Kohli fell out, making the partnership “untenable”.