After being done with the selection of the head coach, the BCCI will have another task to take a call on Ravi Shastri’s coaching staff. The interview for other coaching positions will start tomorrow. MSK Prasad and his selection panel will take a call on other coaches. Most of the members of the present staff are expected to keep their jobs.
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Bharat Arun, the present bowling coach, is likely to be retained but the board will interview as many as nine contenders. Here’s a look at those nine coaches who will be interviewed by the selection panel –
Venkatesh Prasad:
The former India pacer held the bowling coach post when India won the inaugural edition of T20 World Cup in 20007. He later went on to coach Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL.
Prasad was one of the top applicants for the post of head coach in 2016, the year when Anil Kumble was appointed as the head coach. Prasad later served as the head of junior selection panel and was appointed as Kings XI Punjab’s bowling coach for IPL 2018.