Former India Women coach WV Raman opened up about his letter to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and NCA chief Rahul Dravid, saying it was despatched to guarantee Indian cricket creates a system the place gamers adhere to a ‘healthy team culture’. Raman had written a letter to the previous India captains, reportedly alleging that there’s a star tradition within the Indian workforce.
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“Typical of the current era, the phrase prima donna, which has never figured in the letter, has hogged the headlines! The whole point of the letter was to appraise Sourav about certain practices that need to be reviewed and rectified, if he so deemed fit.”
Raman had taken over at a time when Powar was ousted following a tussle with Mithali Raj within the ICC T20 World Cup 2018. Raman revealed there have been ‘undercurrents between certain individuals in the side’ when he took over.
“When I took charge, there were some undercurrents between certain individuals in the side but all that was handled by making them understand that the team is far more important than individuals. That whatever they had achieved thus far, whatever history they had created, they had to keep on replicating that by doing well. And that it is also in the interest of everybody to shed their differences and not carry it on to the field for the simple reason that they stood to benefit a lot more in every respect because as a team, they were gaining momentum. So there were no issues along those lines when I was there.
“What I have tried to say in my letter is very simple — that it’s very easy to get carried away doing things in one particular fashion for a long period of time. That’s what has been happening. That needs to change. That’s what I have tried to drive home in my letter. It’s not against any one particular individual as such. Sometimes, things can escape your attention, and I have tried to do my bit to address that.”
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