Live Cricket News and Updates, May 16
The ouster of WV Raman because the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce head coach and the reinstatement of Ramesh Powar to the submit has proven that the Board of Control for Cricket in India has not been it long-term. Without taking away the teaching credentials of Powar, who earlier this yr guided Mumbai to Vijay Hazare Trophy (home 50-overs competitors) and additionally did his BCCI Level-2 teaching course, it was obscure why Raman was not given an extension, simply the identical approach Powar was ousted after only a half-year stint in 2018 in which he guided the workforce to ICC Women’s World T20 semifinals. And, simply while you thought Raman did a good job, guiding India to the T20 World Cup ultimate final yr earlier than the world went into the lockdown because of the pandemic and was additionally getting ready the workforce for subsequent yr’s 50-over World Cup in Australia-New Zealand, got here this newest improvement.
In the previous, the ladies’s workforce coach submit was not fastened. Former India ladies’s workforce captain, off-spinner and all-rounder, Purnima Rau, was sacked a few months earlier than the 2017 Women’s World Cup. Rau was the final girl coach of the Indian workforce, after which Tushar Arothe, Ramesh Powar and WV Raman held the reins. Rau, who performed in 5 Tests and 33 ODIs between 1993 and 2000, is steering herself away from the disagreeable developments in ladies’s cricket. The 54-year-old is devoting her time to natural farming about 40kms away from Hyderabad. “I grow organic vegetables and fruits and distribute them to families and friends. In women’s cricket, I could not enjoy the fruits of my labour during my playing and coaching days. In organic farming, I am enjoying my moments and they are sweeter than what I tasted in Indian women’s cricket,” she tells news18.com in this unique chat. Rau is deeply damage with the flip of occasions in the current previous and was pained to mirror upon what occurred to her 4 years in the past.
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