B D NarayankarPUNE: To put an end to speculations, BCCI will convene a meeting of its committee for recommending Team India's new coach soon after the Bangladesh tour. This was revealed to Maharashtra Herald by BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah over phone on Saturday.
He said he would speak to BCCI supremo Sharad Pawar today evening and try to fix up a date for the seven-member committee meeting comprising of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and Srinivas Venkataraghvan. ''We have to wait for the new coach until June,'' he said.
Asked whether there was any truth in the reports of Dav Whatmore being considered for Team India's coach, he said as far as BCCI was concerned none of its members have contacted Whatmore nor he had tried to contact us. ''However, we have kept our options open for a foreign coach,'' he said.
Asked about Gavaskar's stand against the appointment of a foreign coach, Shah said: ‘’I do not want react to it. Anyway BCCI will have its say.''
He also rubbished reports about Shastri being directed to ‘observe’ Whatmore during India’s Bangladesh Tour.
