Gaekwad takes over as the national cricket coach

The Nairobi mini world cup is scheduled from October 3 to 15 while the Sharjah Tri-series, featuring India, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, will be held from October 20 to 29.

“The Board will decide on who will be the coach after October later,” he said and added that India’s first engagement post-october as of now is the first test against zimbabwe at home from November 18 to 22.

The Board is expected to nominate a long-term coach at its annual general meeting in Chennai on September 29 and 30.

Australia’s Geoff Marsh and New Zealand’s John Wright are among those tipped for the job.

Meanwhile, in his resignation letter to the BCCI, the outgoing coach Kapil Dev said that he opted out of the job at this stage “in the interest of the game” that he truly loves.

In the letter, addressed to board chairman A.C. Muthiah, the former Indian captain said that he was only waiting for his name to be cleared from match-fixing charges by the Government’s investigating agencies before giving his resignation letter to the BCCI.

“I know that the report will be submitted only later this month and, unfortunately, I cannot wait till that happens as the camp for the boys (ICC knock-out cup probables) begins in two days and I would not like to start a job that I can not finish. It is in the interest of a game that I truly love that I wish to opt out of the job at this stage,” Kapil stated in his letter.

Thanking the board and deeply respecting it for its wishes to retain him despite all that had happened, Kapil wrote that he now wished to resign on his own accord. “I would have resigned at the very onset of the controversies. But I am sure of what I have done, and more definitely of what I have not done. I was waiting to be cleared by the investigating agencies before I gave in my resignation as I did not wish it to look like some kind of admission of any guilt,” he stated.