The high brass of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is making a critical bid to signal celebrated home coach Chandrakant Pandit for the highest job within the State senior cricket crew from the following season onwards.
The Mission? To win the coveted Ranji Trophy, that Tamil Nadu has been desperately searching for to regain because it final triumphed in 1988.
Sportstar has learnt the TNCA is in contact with Pandit, who, by the way, was roped in by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as its head coach for the approaching season.
Pandit may nonetheless be out there for Tamil Nadu for the reason that dates of the IPL and the Ranji Trophy don’t conflict. Unless KKR insists on Pandit guiding its groups within the South African and the Caribbean Twenty20 leagues, he must be free for the Ranji season.
The wily Pandit who performed with restricted success for India as a wicket-keeper batter and a specialist batter within the mid-Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties has made a reputation for himself as a robust coach who delivers ends in home cricket.
And he does that with unheralded groups. He coached Vidarbha to back-to-back Ranji titles. And final season Pandit enabled Madhya Pradesh, in opposition to all odds, to triumph within the Ranji Trophy.
No surprise, he’s referred to as the ‘Miracle Man’ of Indian home cricket. His contract with Madhya Pradesh ends this season and it’s the proper time for Tamil Nadu to seize him.
However, somebody like Pandit doesn’t come low-cost and the TNCA must loosen its purse strings significantly.
And Pandit is a battle hardened no-nonsense coach who would need whole management of the crew with no outdoors interference.
The good factor is Pandit would take over the Tamil Nadu crew with none membership or participant loyalties which have, up to now, proved detrimental to the aspect.
And he doesn’t tolerate any prima donnas within the crew. All are equal, and all have a chosen function to play. His clear function definition is an attribute that has given him lots of success.
If he’s signed by Tamil Nadu, he would come with none baggage of native divisions and politics.
Once he will get the kind of gamers he asks for, Pandit’s means to encourage and inspire the cricketers are well-known.
If Tamil Nadu is unsuccessful in getting Pandit, it may properly proceed with the current incumbent M. Venkataramana. After all, as soon as the captaincy change occurred, Tamil Nadu received each its final two matches of the Ranji league.
The coming days will probably be fascinating.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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