Abhay Sharma prone to substitute R Sridhar as Team India’s fielding coach

Abhay Sharma is ready to use for the fielding coach function with the Indian cricket crew with Sridhar leaving on the finish of the T20 World Cup. Abhay Sharma represented Delhi and Railways in Indian home cricket (Twitter Photo)Abhay Sharma, who has labored with India A, India U-19 and extra lately the nationwide girls’s facet, has emerged as one of many candidates for the senior males’s crew fielding coach’s place rather than the outgoing R Sridhar.

The 52-year-old is ready to use for the fielding coach function with the Indian cricket crew with Sridhar leaving on the finish of the T20 World Cup together with nearly all of the help employees together with head coach Ravi Shastri.”He will be applying for the role soon,” a BCCI supply confirmed.The software deadline ends on November 3. Sharma, who has performed 89 first-class video games representing Delhi, Railways and Rajasthan, was the fielding coach of the Indian crew which travelled to Zimbabwe in 2016.He additionally travelled with the Indian crew on the tour of USA and West Indies in the identical yr.More lately, he was praised for his work by the Indian girls cricketers together with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur in the course of the UK tour earlier than he was changed for the next tour of Australia.Sharma has travelled to a few U-19 World Cups, most lately in South Africa in 2020. He has additionally been a part of round 10 India A excursions.He is likely one of the coaches on the National Cricket Academy and has labored extensively with its chief Rahul Dravid, who’s among the many front-runners for the India head coach job.Click right here for IndiaRight now.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.