BCCI To SACK Morne Morkel, Ryan Ten Doeschate; Gautam Gambhir To Continue: Report
BCCI is reportedly planning to SACK Morne Morkel and Ryan ten Doeschate after the 2025 Asia Cup, while Gautam Gambhir is likely to continue.
India's struggles in the ongoing 2024-25 Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy have reportedly put bowling coach Morne Morkel and assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate's role in the cricket board's firing line.
According to The Telegraph, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is 'hell-bent' on letting go of both of them after the 2025 Asia Cup and before India's next Test series against the West Indies in October. The report said the BCCI's call would be independent of India's performance in the remaining two Tests (the fourth, at Old Trafford, was underway at the time of writing) in the series.
The BCCI is said to believe that Morkel hasn't help improve any bowler in the team, while also scrutinising the 'exact function' of Doeschate, who stood in as coach when Gambhir went home briefly before the series.
Head coach Gautam Gambhir asked for South African Morkel and Dutch ten Doeschate to be included in his support staff when he was appointed last year, alongside Mumbai's Abhishek Nayar. Gambhir had worked with Morkel at Lucknow Super Giants and Nayar and ten Doeschate at Kolkata Knight Riders. Nayar, designated as an assistant coach, was let go in the aftermath of the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this year.
Before the conclusion of the Old Trafford Test, the coaching team had won four of 13 Tests. The report added that the BCCI is ready to give Gambhir a longer rope to avoid a bigger change at the helm for a team in transition. It further said chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar and East's representative Shiv Sundar Das, who are with the team in England, are also under the BCCI's cross-hairs.
Kuldeep Yadav case a big issue
The report claimed that there has been a 'difference in opinion' between the decision makers over some team selections, with spinner Kuldeep Yadav's absence being on top of the list. Considered a match-winner, Kuldeep hasn't played a single Test in the series so far, with the management prefering batting depth and all-rounders.
'The coaches always talk of balance but keeping a world-class wrist spinner like Kuldeep Yadav out has had disastrous consequences," the report cited a source as saying.
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