New appointments in Indian cricket

Former India captain Ravi Shastri was on Friday appointed chairman of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) at the BCCI Annual General Meeting in Mumbai.

Shastri takes over from Ajay Shirke, who was made acting chairman of the Bangalore-based Academy after Kapil Dev was sacked from the post for signing up with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).

Shashank Manohar is BCCI president-elect

Shashank Manohar has been confirmed president-elect of the Board of Control for Cricket India. He will take over from Sharad Pawar next year.

A statement from the BCCI on Thursday evening said Manohar, who is a vice-president of the Board, was the only nomination for the post, election for which was to be held at the 79th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Friday.

Manohar was the lone nominee from Central Zone, whose turn it is to head the BCCI, when the deadline for submission of nominations for the post of 29th president of the BCCI ended at 1700 IST on Thursday.

Pawar is due to quit the post in June ahead of the BCCI's next AGM in September 2008 because of his nomination as president-elect of the International Cricket Council.

Manohar, who represents Vidarbha Cricket Association, is a leading lawyer from Nagpur. A very influential man in the BCCI, he is close to Pawar.

The term of the 29th president will be for two years followed by another one-year term if he is elected again at the the end of the fixed term.

The BCCI had introduced the new concept of president-elect through a special annual general meeting resolution earlier this year and the proposal was passed unanimously.

New appointments NOT made in Indian cricket:

1. A head coach for the team which will be facing the toughest 6 months it has ever faced in the cricket history!

Imp news:
1.There is no decision on the meeting of the committee also which will choose the coach.

2. Apparantly all the applications of the several coaches have been discarded without even checking the./

Imp question:

If all these applications have been discarded, who is going to apply for India's coach and where?

Add the test captaincy to your 'new appointments NOT made' list, Chandan.

http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2007/oct/01manohar.htm

Meet the BCCI president-elect

I hope none of you have forgotten the 2004 home series against Australia and the Nagpur test where we lost the BG trophy.

This is what the BCCI president elect has to say about it:



<BLOCKQUOTE>Though known and respected as a "thorough gentleman" among cricket officials, and though he has managed to steer clear of controversies most of the time, Shashank Manohar had invited the wrath of his countrymen, including the media, for giving a green top to the Indian and the Australian teams for the third Test at Nagpur in the late 2004.
The Aussie fast bowlers, particularly Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie, made the most of VCA's magnanimity, and devastated the hapless Indian batsmen on the minefield and won the Test by a whopping margin of 342 runs.
He was accused of deliberately preparing such a wicket just to teach a lesson to his political opposition. So much so, some even pilloried him as a traitor. But he brushed aside such charges as "baseless", saying he was not dictated by anyone and had received no instructions whatsoever from the BCCI or the Indian team management. And even if they did, he would not have obeyed, he emphasized.
He revealed that he only acted according to a circular the BCCI had issued in the early 2004. It called for sporting pitches that would have enough bounce to encourage quicker bowers and also improve the strokeplay of batsmen.

So you all can understand whether our administration in another scoundrel's hand or not!</BLOCKQUOTE>

Fwiw I thought that Nagpur wicket in 2004 was fine. It's the sort of wicket that should be getting produced a lot more in India if they want to be consistently competetive in all parts of the globe.

It was hardly a "minefield". Just a pacey, bouncy wicket with a green tinge on the first day. Otherwise known as a 'good cricket wicket'.

A few points raised from reading this thread so far:

1) If Nagpur was such a minefield then how come Aus scored 398 and 329 for 5 declared on it?

2)

1. A head coach for the team which will be facing the toughest 6 months it has ever faced in the cricket history!

Phurt! You've just come off a 7 JAMODI tour of England - it doesn't get any tougher!

3) I think Ravi Shastri needs to be utilised more. Give him a few more roles on important sub-commitees.

Why do they need a head coach? Under the subtle guidance of Venky Prasad and Robin Singh, India have won a test series overseas against a major test playing nation, and have also won a world championship, all in the space of 3 months.

I personally think Shastri would do a better job. If not him then its got to be Gavaskar.

I don't think either of Venky or Robin had much to do with the England win or Ireland, don't know about the WC.

Prasad and Singh were present for the duration of the England tour.

My point was that their role during the England series wouldn't have been much more than organising fielding drills and working on the bowlers. Most of the 'guidance' would probably have come from Dravid, Sachin, Kumble, Ganguly and Laxman.

doremi wrote:My point was that their role during the England series wouldn't have been much more than organising fielding drills and working on the bowlers. Most of the 'guidance' would probably have come from Dravid, Sachin, Kumble, Ganguly and Laxman.

Does this mean in a year or two when they all retire then Yuvraj, Dhoni, Sreesanth, Agarkar and Harbhajan will be running the show?!

Well regardless of their 'guidance' levels, they should be kept in the mix, if for nothing else than that they seem to be good luck charms for India.

Gary 111 wrote:

doremi wrote:My point was that their role during the England series wouldn't have been much more than organising fielding drills and working on the bowlers. Most of the 'guidance' would probably have come from Dravid, Sachin, Kumble, Ganguly and Laxman.

Does this mean in a year or two when they all retire then Yuvraj, Dhoni, Sreesanth, Agarkar and Harbhajan will be running the show?!

Well, Dhoni and Yuvraj hopefully since they'll probably be captain and vice captain. Sreesanth wouldn't be a bad choice either. Harbhajan? No, not meant to be a leader probably.

Isnt Sreesanth already the teams breakdancing coach?