Anil Kumble India cricket team coach
After naming former India skipper Anil Kumble as the new head coach for the next one year, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that the board has complete confidence in the legendary leg-spinner.
"After discussions we have accepted a last call that for one year Anil Kumble will be the head coach," Thakur told a packed press conference on the sidelines of the board's first ever yearly cricket conference in Dharamsala.
Indian cricket team deserves the best coach, BCCI has complete confidence in Kumble. It is not about an Indian or a foreign coach, it is about best coach for India.
Kumble, the world's third most higest wicket-taker with 619 Test scalps, will succeed Zimbabwean Duncan Fletcher, whose term finished in March 2015 after the 50-over World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Taking after Fletcher's residency, the BCCI selected previous India chief Ravi Shastri as team director until the ICC World T20 in April this year after which the board promoted for the head mentor on its site.
The BCCI got 57 applications for the post and trimmed it down to 21 preceding giving over the rundown to the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) involving Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman, who met the shortlisted hopefuls.
Current Indian determination board of trustees administrator Sandip Patil, Kumble, Shastri, Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Amre, Tom Moody, Stuart Law and Andy Moles were among the conspicuous names doing the rounds for the top job.
Kumble's first task with the team will be the four-match Test visit toward the West Indies one month from now.
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