Former nationwide selector Devang Gandhi appointed Delhi Ranji crew coach

Former nationwide selector Devang Gandhi has been appointed head coach of the senior Delhi crew for the upcoming home season, DDCA introduced on Saturday.

Gandhi, who had performed three Tests for India in 1999, was a senior nationwide selector from 2016-17 to 2020-21 season.

V Arvind will probably be bowling coach, Bantu Singh will probably be batting coach and lately retired Punit Bisht is new fielding coach of the senior crew.

He was at present teaching the Bengal U-19 crew however as per senior DDCA sources, they wished somebody from exterior Delhi, who doesn’t carry any baggage and in addition comes with a clear slate.

“Devang Gandhi is a respected name in Bengal cricket and although he doesn’t have coaching experience at senior level, the DDCA president Rohan Jaitley received a lot of positive feedback about him from influential quarters. Hence the names of Maninder Singh, Ajay Ratra, Manoj Prabhakar and Ajay Sharma weren’t considered,” a senior DDCA official informed PTI on situations of anonymity.

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“If the names of Prabhakar and Ajay Sharma would have been considered, a former Delhi and India stalwart, who has a zero tolerance approach towards anyone linked to the match-fixing scandal, would have created a ruckus. Gandhi is a Level 2 certified coach, is known to work with juniors and he can build a new team,” the official added.

With no Dhruv Shorey and Nitish Rana out there from this season, Gandhi can have difficult job of galvanising a younger crew whose nucleus includes Yash Dhull, would-be captain Himmat Singh and all-rounder Harshit Rana, all three future India prospects.

Meanwhile, Robin Singh Junior is as soon as once more the chairman of senior choice committee however controversial Mayank Sidhana, who was sacked halfway by way of final season after ugly altercation with Gagan Khoda is again within the committee. Another shocking identify is former Services captain Sowmik Chatterjee and it’s nonetheless not clear how he made the minimize.

DDCA president Rohan Jaitley has additionally created a ‘High Performance Group’ of coaches the place Gursharan Singh, who was a member of CAC final time, has turn out to be the chief batting coach.

Former Delhi pacers Parvinder Awana and Sumit Narwal are bowling coaches whereas Rishabh Pant’s childhood coach at Sonnet Club, Devender Sharma is the brand new wicketkeeping coach.