BCCI appoints Ramesh Powar as head coach of Indian ladies’s cricket workforce

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday introduced the appointment of former India spinner Ramesh Powar as the top coach of India ladies’s cricket workforce. Powar’s candidature was finalized and beneficial to the BCCI by a three-member Cricket Advisory Committee.The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Sulakshana Naik, Madan Lal and Rudra Pratap Singh interviewed the candidates and unanimously agreed on Powar’s candidature.The first task of the newly-appointed coach would be the England tour the place India ladies will play a Test, 3 ODIs and as many T20Is. The one-off Test begins in Bristol on June 16. The selectors are anticipated to announce the squad for the England tour within the coming days and the workforce is anticipated to fly to England together with the boys’s cricket workforce after finishing the obligatory quarantine interval.NEWS: Ramesh Powar appointed Head Coach of Indian Women’s Cricket teamDetails https://t.co/GByGFicBsX pic.twitter.com/wJsTZrFrWF— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) May 13, 2021
A former worldwide, Powar performed 2 Tests and 31 ODIs for India. Post his taking part in profession, he took up cricket teaching and is an ECB Level 2 licensed coach and has additionally attended BCCI-NCA Level 2 teaching course. A former coach of the Indian Women’s Team from July-November 2018, it was beneath him that India certified for the semi-final of the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup in 2018 and likewise received 14 T20 matches in a row.He just lately coached the Mumbai senior workforce that received the Vijay Hazare Trophy and has labored on the National Cricket Academy as a Bowling Coach.On Wednesday, incumbent coach WV Raman, former coach Ramesh Powar and former India gamers Ajay Ratra and Hrishikhesh Kanitkar have been interviewed by Madan Lal and Sulakshana Naik. The interview course of was delayed as CAC member RP Singh was unable to hitch on account of his father’s demise on Wednesday.Female candidates Mamtha Maben, Devika Vaidya, former chairman of selectors Hemlatha Kala and former assistant coach with the workforce Suman Sharma have been interviewed on Thursday by the CAC. WV Raman was an computerized entry among the many shortlisted candidates. As many as 35 individuals had utilized for the put up of head coach after the BCCI invited functions for the job.CAC chief Madan Lal on Wednesday had instructed the PTI that each one 4 male candidates had come well-prepared. The interviews ran properly previous half-hour for every candidates with intensive dialogue on making a roadmap for subsequent 12 months’s ODI World Cup. Creating a pool of gamers for enhancing the bench power was additionally among the many main factors of dicussion.WV Raman took over from Ramesh Powar in 2018 and had been answerable for the workforce till Match 2021. Under Raman, India reached the ultimate of the Women’s T20 World Cup in 2020 however the ODI and T20I sequence defeats to South Africa in March has put his place beneath scanner. The selectors, led by Neetu David, had urged the BCCI to consider appointing extra feminine assist workers for the ladies’s workforce.Also Read | Ben Stokes on taking part in rescheduled IPL 2021: Difficult for England boys to have a free hole