ACB denies Marsh replacing Kapil

MUMBAI, AUGUST 23: The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) has denied media reports that former Aussie skipper Rodney Marsh would replace Kapil...

MUMBAI, AUGUST 23: The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) has denied media reports that former Aussie skipper Rodney Marsh would replace Kapil Dev as India’s cricket coach.

The ACB media manager, Brian Murgatroyd, termed the reports as “hypothesis, is unlikely, to say the least,” as per information received here on Wednesday. “As far as I know no one has offered Marsh the job of coaching,” the Melbourne-based Murgatroyd said.

Marsh, the former Aussie wicketkeeper-batsman, is the chief coach at the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Adelaide and has also visited its Indian counterpart which has been recently set up in Bangalore as a consultant.

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Kapil Dev’s role as the coach of the Indian team has come under scrutiny from several quarters since former all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar had alleged that it was Kapil who had offered him Rs 25 Lakh bribe to underperform in a one-day match in the Singer Cup in Sri Lanka in 1994.

The Cricket Board, at its executive committee meeting at Bangalore last Sunday, left the decision on Kapil’s future as India coach to be taken by its President AC Muthiah following the former’s outburst in the media, criticising the Board officials’ handling of the match-fixing scandal.

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