INDIAN WOMEN'S COACH

Kapil Dev in BCCI's panel to pick Women's coach

by Cricbuzz Staff • Last updated on

Kapil Dev returns to the BCCI fold with a new responsibility © Getty

With the Cricket Advisory Committee deciding to stay away, the BCCI has formed an ad-hoc panel comprising of former India cricketers Shantha Rangaswamy, Kapil Dev and Anshuman Gaekwad to help in the appointment of a new head coach for the national women's team. Rangaswamy is understood to have replaced fellow former colleague Shubhangi Kulkarni on the panel with common consensus.

The three-member panel will conduct the interviews of the eligible candidates on December 20 at BCCI's headquarters in Mumbai. The deadline for sending in the application is Friday (December 14).

Meanwhile, Cricbuzz learns Ramesh Powar has re-applied for the position after the bitter fallout with senior-most player Mithali Raj leading to a blame game that erupted due to her being axed from the line-up for the ICC Women's World T20 semi-final against England last month. While Raj wrote a scathing letter blaming Powar of ill-treatment and humiliation in the Caribbean, the interim coach hit back accusing her of threatening to retire and leaving the tour mid-way if denied the opening slot in the batting order.

Since then, India's T20I captain and vice-captain respectively, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana, have written to BCCI backing Powar, given the growth the senior team has seen in his three months' association.

So far Herschelle Gibbs, Owais Shah and Manoj Prabhakar are the ones to have confirmed their application for the vacant position.

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