Indian women's cricket team to hire a bowling coach

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's cricket team will soon have a bowling coach as the BCCI is all set to invite applications for the role....

NEW DELHI: The Indian women's cricket team will soon have a bowling coach as the BCCI is all set to invite applications for the role. The players get batting inputs from head coach Tushar Arothe, former Baroda allrounder who scored 6105 first-class runs and took 225 wickets.

"The women's team management has expressed the need of a bowling coach. We will soon start the hunt for a suitable candidate by inviting applications," a senior BCCI official told PTI. "The applicants need not have an international background. Even Tushar has not played for India so that really is not a factor," the official said.

Great idea to get some good coach so that Mithali Raj and company can be world champions.

He added that the team for the Asia Cup will be announced later this week. India have had a mixed run since making the World Cup final in England last July.

They beat hosts South Africa in their ICC ODI Championship-opener before being thrashed by Australia at home. They also failed to make the final at home in the subsequent T20 tri-series involving Australia and England in March.

The Mithali Raj-led squad then made amends by beating England 2-1 in a three-match ODI series.

-Source: News Agency