Ramesh Powar resigns as the MCA spin coach

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has had a flurry resignation of late as some of their senior officials and coaching staff have already resigned.

Days after Pravin Amre resigned from the managing committee, former Indian off-spinner Ramesh Powar has also resigned from as the post of spin coach.

The former Indian cricketer Powar was nursing the wards at MCA’s Indoor academy in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Powar played 31 ODI’s for India picking up 34 wickets at an average of 35.

However, he played 148 first-class matches and bagged 470 wickets. Powar was recently playing in the new initiative Ice Cricket in St. Moritz. He represented Virender Sehwag-led Badrutt’s Palace Diamonds.

The 40-year-old former India spinner Powar has been doing the job at the BKC facility for the last six months. But the spinner met the MCA officials on Wednesday to submit his resignation papers.

“In January, I had provided a comprehensive plan to conduct a camp for the spinners which included coaching, strategising, mental make-up and fitness. I shortlisted bowlers at the junior and senior levels where I felt there was scope of improvement and work to be done on them in the off season. The season is almost over now and it is the right time to prepare for the next one with more than five months in hand,” Powar resigned after the MCA failed to respond to his proposal to groom Mumbai spinners across all age groups asserted.

“Unfortunately, the plan never took off. I waited for more than three weeks for the camp to start, but it did not materialise. “With virtually no cricketing activity on at the academy, there was no point in sticking around. I am not a guy who will stick around for the salary. When my creative freedom is taken away, I did not see any point in continuing and that’s why I resigned,” Powar added.

Powar added that he proposed the idea to strengthened the Mumbai bench for spinners, “It is absolutely false when someone says Mumbai lacks talented spinners. There are ample of talented cricketers out there. That was the whole purpose of this camp. I was looking to work with spinners where there was enough scope to improve either technique-wise, skill-wise or fitness-wise. There were some bowlers who were not rated as spinners, but they had a spark in them”.

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