Bangar (right) will be India’s assistant coach
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A four-member BCCI committee has decided to promote Sanjay Bangar to assistant coach of the Indian team, while Bharat Arun will continue on as bowling coach.
“A coach’s role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players”
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India head coach Ravi Shastri has made it clear that captain Virat Kohli will be the authoritative figure of the national team.
“We didn’t play spin well”
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Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen believes that the national team will excel on their upcoming tour of the United Arab Emirates, but only if they play Pakistan’s spinners well.
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“They interfere basically with a lot of the cricket decisions over the period of time and I don’t necessarily agree with that”
Australia assistant coach Steve Rixon, who was sacked just the other day, has announced that he has “very little respect” for Cricket Australia since they kept on interfering in decisions that had already been made.
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“Steve has made an outstanding contribution to Australian cricket over a long period of time and played an important role with the national team since 2011”
Australia have decided to axe senior assistant coach Steve Rixon ahead of their highly-anticipated tour of South Africa, which gets underway on February 5.
