India’s crisis in selecting next cricket coach deepens – ex-players to help choose the successor to Wright
Tarun Sikhdar
May 6, 2005

India is ready to take help from ex-players in understanding and deciding on issues related to selecting the next coach for Indian Cricket. It is a daunting task to select the new coach because of different styles of matured well settled Indian team. They may select someone from the country, say experts. Viv Richards may be in the card but there are lots of names flying around.

India's cricket board included three former test captains in a committee set up on Friday to appoint a successor to New Zealander John Wright, who departed as national coach last month.

The six-member panel of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S.Venkatraghavan plus three Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials will hold their first meeting on Sunday, a board release said. An Australian candidate is favoured to replace Wright, who ended his 4-1/2-year tenure as India's first foreign coach after the home series against Pakistan to spend time with his family.

Former Australia captain Greg Chappell and his compatriot Dean Jones have shown interest and have already forwarded their CVs to the BCCI, secretary Karunakaran Nair said. However, a third Australian, former all-rounder Tom Moody is seen as the front-runner.

Moody, 39, a member of the World Cup-winning squads of 1987 and 1999, is the director of cricket at English county Worcestershire and is said to have been recommended by Wright.

India's media have criticised the board for not moving quickly to find Wright's replacement.

However, Nair said the BCCI had until July because India's next match is not until August when the team is due to play a one-day tri-series in Sri Lanka. Batting great Chappell was also in the race in 2000 when ex-New Zealand captain Wright was chosen. Australia's Dav Whatmore, who guided Sri Lanka to the 1996 World Cup and renewed his contract with Bangladesh last month, has also shown interest in the post.

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