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By Friday, the under-19 Indian team will have a new coach. With Venkatesh Prasad’s contract with the BCCI expiring last month the Board will hold a meeting at Mumbai on Friday to decide on a new coach.
Speaking to The Indian Express this evening, BCCI joint-secretary MP Pandove informed that it was high time they finalised the matter before the National Cricket Academy’s (NCA) inter-zonal tournament got underway this month-end.
“By the last week of this month, the Hemu Adhikary Trophy will start in Bangalore. And we want the U-19 coach to oversee that, because players doing well there could be considered for the team’s England tour later in July,” Pandove said over phone.
Prasad, though, maintains that he hasn’t yet ruled out serving another term, though sources say former India stumper Chandrakant Pandit remains in the reckoning.
“I had written to the BCCI saying that after doing service for the U-19 team for such a long time, it will be good if I got a higher job. I never meant that I wasn’t interested in the U-19 job. I only meant that I wanted to go up the ladder,” he explained.
